Hello and happy Friday! So, first off - I'm generally not a huge applesauce fan (meaning I don't eat it every day). I think I ate a bit too much of it growing up, and frankly I have always found it a bit boring. However, it is quite healthy (especially applesauce without added sugar and with all natural ingredients), so it is one of the foods I continue to turn to when I'm not feeling well or when I want something simple and low calorie to eat.I recently found a new favorite organic apple sauce, made by a company called Santa Cruz Organic. I love their Apple Blackberry flavor. It is thick, sweet, and tasty! I like it enough that I'm trying to figure out ways to integrate it into other foods. For instance, this morning, I added a couple of teaspoonfuls to my cereal which created the most decadent cereal ever.
This applesauce has great ingredients -- the entire list is "organic apples, organic blackberry puree, organic apple juice concentrate, and vitamin C (from ascorbic acid)." I've written before about the health benefits of apples as well as the health benefits of dark colored foods before, and you simply can't go wrong with a list of ingredients like that.
One ginormous half cup serving (128 grams) is 60 calories, and 2 grams of fiber, 0 grams of fat (making it 1 weight watchers point). Definitely a great food to eat on its own (if you don't find it boring -- sometimes adding a bit of cinnamon makes it more exciting), or to add to other recipes.
Enjoy!
Juliet
9 comments:
I love applesauce. :) But my only problem with it is that it's not very filling. But it does make a great dessert at times when I top it with low fat honey graham crackers and some fat free coolwhip.
I have these in my fridge right now... so I can testify that these are great!!!!!!~~~~~
Sounds good! And it could even word as a dessert in a sweet tooth pinch. :)
this looks so great. i usually don't eat applesauce by itself. i just use it in baking to replace butter and oil. this would give baked goods a neat flavor.
i was just wondering, juliet, if you go shopping just to look for low calories/good-for-you foods, or do you just stumble upon them while you're shopping.
hey juliet!!
just wanna let you know that you won the butterfly award on my blog!!
Hi Juliet,
I love that apple sauce brand but I have never tried that particular flavor. I'll look out for it the next time I go food shopping. My kids eat a lot of applesauce. I am like you: an occasional applesauce eater.
I love applesauce too! I'm usually disappointed by the apple/other fruit mixes though. i will have to try this one!
I bet this would be good in backing, too!
Applesauce is great to add to brownie mix instead of oil. It adds the moisture but not the fat.
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