Jordans All Fruit Bar

Jordans All Fruit Bar is reckoned to be good for you. So let's start with the facts and figures. 1 Stats. ++++++ Each bar weighs in at 30g. 5 bars are in each box, and costs are around the £1.30 mark. 97% of the product is apple in one form or another, and the remainder is a tiny bit of passion fruit juice, some lemon juice, Citrus pectin and natural flavourings. So if you have read that carefully, and done the math, this is a fruit bar that is 100% fruit, with no extra sugar. It packs in 88 calories into each bar, mostly in carbohydrate form, with only trace elements of fat and salt. You ... more

Now it is fair to say that I am not the healthiest of eaters, sure I enjoy an occasional salad and I also consume my fair share of fruit and vegetables, but I’ve never considered taking vitamin supplements or going for health bars in any way. For me, if a food product comes in a bar it should be coated in chocolate and have a calorie count approaching four figures, so I was somewhat taken aback when I received a free Jordan’s All Fruit Bar through the post last week. What was I to do? Maybe I could dip it in chocolate to increase the calories or maybe crumbling it onto some full fat ice cream ... more