Biona Organic Cranberries 100g

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Customer reviews - Biona Organic Cranberries 100g

Reviews

- Fri 5th Nov 2010
Lovely chewy, juicy cranberries without any nasty chemicals added. I add them to my morning gluten free porridge or have them as a tasty snack.
Reviewer's Name: mrs gillian lappin

- Thu 26th May 2011
The cranberries are worth the high price, they are tasty and juicy, lovely just as they are or in baking, and it is great they contain no added sugar.
Reviewer's Name: Gaelle Chassery

Misleading - Sat 22nd Oct 2011
Absolutely adore the Biona Sour dried Cherries. And thought these would be the same: ie natural dried fruit. To advertise as "no added sugar" is very misleading. "concentrated apple juice" is pure fructose. Fructose IS sugar!!! For the budding chemists amongst you, "sugar" - eg cane sugar or beet sugar is one molecule of glucose one molecule of fructose. In fact, the body absorbs the "sugar" - chemists call it sucrose - somewhat more slowly that pure fructose because it has the break the glucose-fructose bond. Fructose will rot you teeth as much as sugar. Feed your unfriendly gut flora as much as sugar. And - wait for it - will spike your insulin MORE than sugar. I am sure Biona are a good company with ethical intentions. But the truths hiding behind untruth of "no added sugar" are legion. "No sugar" should mean just that - no insulin spiking, tooth rotting sweetners added. Just plain, delicious, dried fruits that we can choose to sweeten or not. And for anyone who thinks concentrated apple juice isn't just a liquid form of fructose, just ask yourself why they are adding it at all, let alone why they boil it down first to concentrate it (just like with beet/cane juice!)? Truly, only one answer: to add the intense sweetness of fructose sugar - the self same fructose found in "cane Sugar" that gives it sweetness. Meanwhile, I highly recommend the Biona dried Sour Cherries. Delicious. And natural. And no rotten teeth.
Reviewer's Name: Nuala Bingham

sugars - Tue 25th Oct 2011
We totally agree with your comments, Nuala. It's always a dilemma when labelling things 'no added sugar' as sugars in foods are such a complex issue, as your comment has outlined.
Reviewer's Name: Catriona from GoodnessDirect

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