Comments on: The Dangers Of Dried Fruit http://rawandtasty.com/the-dangers-of-dried-fruit/ Personal Raw Chef, and Raw Food Classes in Houston, Texas. Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:29:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Nathalie http://rawandtasty.com/the-dangers-of-dried-fruit/comment-page-1/#comment-499 Nathalie Mon, 03 May 2010 01:07:22 +0000 http://rawandtasty.com/?p=1036#comment-499 I loved this article. People don't realize that snacking on dried fruits can be problematic. Ironically, I am a keeper of parrots and they love dried fruit as snacks. As they show their sensitivities more readily than humans, I learned about sulphitees early from them. There are indeed suppliers of dried fruit that is human-grade and processed without sulphite. And they're delicious. They're not quite as spectacularly colored, but once you see the difference - you wonder why the regularly processed dried fruits (w/sulphite) are nearly nuclear in color! Thankfully my bird store actually supplied human-grade fruits, then packaged for parrots. Some were left as originally packaged for humans, so if I desired a ridiculously sweet snack, I had a "fix". If in doubt, I always avoid the extremely bright colored fruits such as the mango, etc. Thank you for this reminder! I loved this article. People don’t realize that snacking on dried fruits can be problematic. Ironically, I am a keeper of parrots and they love dried fruit as snacks. As they show their sensitivities more readily than humans, I learned about sulphitees early from them. There are indeed suppliers of dried fruit that is human-grade and processed without sulphite. And they’re delicious. They’re not quite as spectacularly colored, but once you see the difference – you wonder why the regularly processed dried fruits (w/sulphite) are nearly nuclear in color! Thankfully my bird store actually supplied human-grade fruits, then packaged for parrots. Some were left as originally packaged for humans, so if I desired a ridiculously sweet snack, I had a “fix”.

If in doubt, I always avoid the extremely bright colored fruits such as the mango, etc. Thank you for this reminder!

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