RSSDel Monte Orchard Select® & SunFresh®: Best Canned Fruit Ever
April 6th, 2008 | View Comments
There’s a part of me that yearns to be a pioneer woman, to spin yarn from my own sheep’s fleece and knit socks, to grow fresh food all summer and can it for the winter.
Normally, I lament the lack of fresh fruit in the winter, or at least the lack of fresh fruit that doesn’t look like it barely survived the trip from Chile. But this year I made an amazing discovery: Del Monte’s fruit-in-a-jar in the produce section.
I randomly threw a jar of the sliced peaches into my basket one day and was frankly blown away that it didn’t taste like high fructose corn syrup. That’s because it doesn’t contain high fructose corn syrup! I know! The ingredients are peaches, water, sugar, “natural flavor”, citric acid, and ascorbic acid. That’s not very many multisyllabic chemical compounds (though they are surprisingly sing-able).
These peaches actually taste like peaches and are really great eaten alone or with cottage cheese.
I’ve also tried the apricot halves from the same Orchard Select® line and the mango and the new grapefruit lovers mix from the SunFresh® (read: more exotic fruits) line. All are excellent. Given how hard it is to get good mango at any time of year around here, I may switch to eating the SunFresh® mango exclusively.
As good as these products are, they still don’t quite quash my pioneer-woman leanings. I was reminded once again today of how dismal supermarket tomatoes are. I can’t wait to move into a real house with a real yard and grow my own.
Yvonne posted this on April 6th, 2008 @ 9:03pm in Food/Cooking | Permalink to "Del Monte Orchard Select® & SunFresh®: Best Canned Fruit Ever"
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2. Elenita » April 12th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
I randomly threw a jar of the sliced peaches into my basket one day and was frankly blown away that it didn’t taste like high fructose corn syrup. That’s because it doesn’t contain high fructose corn syrup! I know!
Score one for ethanol! Now that corn’s a valuable crop again, the excess (and some of the not-excess) aren’t being used to make that awful overprocessed crap. I know it’s ridiculously optimistic, but here’s hoping the use of HFCS dies completely, demand for sugar rises, and the sugar farmers who lost out with NAFTA benefit.
If they do, I’ll even get over my objections about corn being a ridiculously inefficient input for ethanol production. Because it’s obvious in my mind which is the greater evil.
(See, I told you that internship last summer–forgive the pun–ate my brain.)
And about these pioneer woman fantasies: did you read a lot of Little House as a kid? Oh, wait: stupid question. You grew up in Wisconsin… :p
1. Sherry » April 7th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Thanks for the heads-up and the review! I will add these to my list (linked above) of products which do not contain high-fructose corn syrup.