Welch's Fruit snacks

Asked by Pessie · May 7, 2002 · Other

Question

Are these kosher? Ing: Juice from concentrates (grape, Peach, pear, and pineapple), corn syrup, sugar, modified corn starch, fruit puree(grape,apple, strawberry and raspberry), gelatin, citric acid, lactic acid, natural and artificial flavors, coconut oil, carnauba wax, ascorbic acid, beta carotene(vitamin A), alpha tocopherol acetate(vitamin E),Red 40, blue1, yellow 6, and yellow 5. Manufactured by Welch's Concord, MA 01742 800-340-6870 Also, for the future, is there a way to determine these things for myself? Thank you for your time.

Answer

Answered by Aaron Abadi

Calculating grape juice quantities can get a bit hairy at times. This one is easy, because the juices are from concentrate which is less than half of each juice, and there are four juices listed besides all the other ingredients. This certainly puts the grape juice at less than 1/6th. Aaron Abadi