The Good: Very nutritious, Decent shelf life for an organic product, Very flavorful
The Bad: They cost more than other dehydrated bananas
The Basics: The Peeled Organics Banan-A-Peel fruit snacks make up for their expense by providing a flavor that is incredible.
As I work to improve my health, I have discovered that fruits and vegetables are important to my heart health. I know, that probably sounds stupid, but with my current diet, I am rewarded for actually having dietary fiber and one of the few things that helps me get up to my daily allowance of it is fruit. Lately, that has been taking the form of Peeled Organic dried fruit, like Banan-A-Peel, which might well be one of the best dehydrated fruits in the Peeled Organic line!
Tasting amazingly like banana and allowing one to ever forget about the existence of crunchy, disturbing banana chips, Banan-A-Peel is a delicious organic fruit worth stocking up on!
Basics
Peeled Organic is a relatively new fruit snack company that is doing good work for both the environment and personal health. Using no preservatives, Peeled Organic strives to present the healthiest possible dried fruit to customers and, as the name suggests, does so using organic farming methods.
Banan-A-Peel is almost just what the name suggests; a bag of dehydrated organic banana slices! The dehydrated fruit chunks are supple, not hard. These will immediately make one forget about dried banana chips. They are not covered in a coating of sugar, not hard and actually taste like real bananas! The Banan-A-Peel fruit snacks comes in a 1.40 oz. stiff plastic bag that is not resealable.
Ease Of Preparation
Banan-A-Peel fruit packs are simple to use. Simply open the bag and remove the fruit from it! There is no trick to eating Banan-A-Peel; they are a snack that is ready to go from the bag to the mouth.
Taste
Opening the bag of Banan-A-Peel fruit snacks, is a delightful olfactory experience. With the bago opened, the banana aroma wafts out and captivates the nose. I began salivating when I smelled these and I was surprised because I am not the world’s biggest banana fan or anything!
It’s a good thing I started salivating! The soft, slightly brown fruit chips came alive on the tongue, but they started very dry with their initial flavor. The Banan-A-Peel slices are banana without the excessive water, so the mostly-dehydrated pieces of fruit are sweet and rich in flavor, as opposed to dry and somewhat tasteless. With the dryness of the dehydrated fruit fast fading, the Banan-A-Peel fruit snacks take on one of the sweetest tastes I have ever enjoyed and it actually made me wonder how I had never really contemplated the flavor of bananas before!
These fruit snacks are sweet and delightful and leave no aftertaste in the mouth.
Nutrition
Banan-A-Peel organic dried fruits are an all-natural snack, with no preservatives or added sugar. Given that the ingredient is organic bananas, there is nothing hiding in them that will surprise consumers. These have a shelf life of about nine months, so they are not bad for stocking up on if you eat a lot of fruit. The package we got on the last day of January (2012) expires on October 5, 2012 (or it would have had I not devoured the contents of the bag in a single sitting!).
Each 40 gram serving of Banan-A-Peel has 150 calories, none of which come from fat. There are two grams of dietary fiber and 25% of your RDA of Vitamin C. Outside that, there are no significant nutrients in a serving, though there is 2% of one’s RDA of Vitamin A and Iron. They are gluten free and were packaged in a facility that processes nuts, dairy, wheat and soy, so those with applicable allergies ought to keep that in mind.
Storage/Clean-up
Kept in their bag, Banan-A-Peel will remain fresh for almost a year and as long as the bag is sealed, one suspects they will last that long anyway. Because I only got enough to review, I am not worried about keeping these fresh! They come in, they go right back out!
Cleanup is simple as well. Banan-A-Peel dried fruits are a dry food and thus leave no mess behind. Simply toss out the plastic bag and cleanup is done! I would, naturally, be happier if there was a way to recycle these plastic bags.
Overall
Banan-A-Peel is a fruit snack that is easily one of the very best fruit snacks I have ever had. It is likely to thrill anyone who loves bananas, but loathes the sticky, messy peels!
For other Peeled Organic fruit snack reviews, check out my reviews of:
Cherry-Go-Round
Apple-2-The-Core
Pine-4-Pineapple
8.5/10
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© 2012 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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