Earth's Best Organic Sunny Days Snack Bars, Apple, 5.3-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)

by Earth's Best

Product Features

• Delicious Earth's Best Sesame Street Sunny Days Snack Bars are an excellent source of calcium, iron & zinc
• Their natural apple flavor comes bursting through the wholesome and delicious cereal crust with every chewy and delicious bite
• Individually wrapped, they are a quick and easy healthy snack to eat on-the-go
• Certified Organic by Oregon Tilth
• We also recommend that this product be served only while seated and supervised

Product Description

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Earth's Best Organic Foods

Organic foods offer countless healthful benefits for you, your children and the world around us. With The Hain Celestial Group's family of organic brands and Earth's Best you can be sure you are giving your family the highest quality organic foods.

Earth's Best For Infants

From the day they are born, infants rapidly change and grow. And so do their food preferences. That's why Earth's Best offers a wide variety of formulas, cereals, jarred food blends and juices to ensure your baby gets the wholesome and pure nutrition they need.

Earth's Best Organic Sunny Days Snack Bars, Apple, 5.3-Ounce Boxes

Sunny Days Apple Snack Bars pack the juicy flavor of fresh picked apples inside a wholesome and delicious cereal crust. Individually wrapped, they are a quick and easy healthy snack to eat on-the-go.

Why Organic?

Choosing organic is choosing to live a healthier life. Organic foods are produced without the use of potentially harmful chemicals and synthetic pesticides or growth hormones. This is even more important when we consider infants. For four to six months following birth, infants receive most of their nutrition from breast milk or infant formula. It is so important that these formulas contain the safest ingredients.

If ingested, potential toxic chemicals or heavy metals can lead to compromised immune system development. Likewise, young infants consume disproportionately high levels of fruits and vegetables when compared to adults. This increases their risk of exposure to potential contaminants found among non-organic products. Finally, Earth's Best products do not contain genetically engineered ingredients (GEIs), made by inserting genes from one plant into a strain of another to produce more crops or control pests.

Why organic? It is better for you, your child and the environment they will grow up in.

The Earth's Best Difference:

• Organic ingredients grown without harmful pesticides
• No Genetically Engineered Ingredients (GEIs)
• Most items made only from whole grains
• No added salt, modified starches or refined sugars
• No artificial flavors, colors or preservatives
• Kosher (excluding meat varieties)
• Rigorous product testing
  

As your little one grows, you'll have to make a lot of choices. With Earth's Best choosing the right food is easy. They create high quality, organic products grown by the some of the best farmers, filled with the best ingredients and tested for the highest level of purity and freshness. Earth's Best organic products help protect the earth so future generations have healthy food to eat and a healthy world to grow up in. That makes a big difference for your little one.

About Earth’s Best

Earth’s Best is the first and only full line of organic baby food. Earth's Best organic provides "better for baby" products with the freshest, purest ingredients, so parents can nurture their baby's health with the utmost confidence. Earth’s Best is organic certified by Oregon Tilth, an agency accredited by the USDA. That means they procure ingredients that do not contain potentially harmful synthetic pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, or genetically engineered ingredients (GEIs). It also means that they can proudly display the USDA organic logo on their packaging.

No wonder, Earth’s Best has been trusted and preferred by parents, grandparents, and caregivers alike for the past 25 years.

Today Earth’s Best offers organic formulas, snacks, meals, and even baby body products for your little one. By expanding the trusted Earth's Best brand beyond baby foods they hope all children will grow up with the freshest and purest products possible in a clean and safe world.

Earth's Best Quality Promise

Earth's Best produces food with the highest degree of attention to quality and safety.

Each ingredient is tested for pesticides and potentially harmful residues. No product is released until Earth's Best quality assurance department approves laboratory results, ensuring they meet the strict standards for organic certification.

• Earth's Best organic infant formula contains no toxic chemicals or heavy metals.
  
• Earth's Best organic infant cereals provide an excellent source of iron to aid early physical and neurological development and restore the iron depletion that results after birth.
• Earth's Best organic baby juice comes from fresh pressed, undiluted, single strength juice, not from concentrate.
  
• Earth's Best organic produce does not expose infants to the higher level of contaminants found in conventional produce. Proportionately, babies consume up to four times the fruits and vegetables that adults consume.
• Earth's Best organic jarred fruits provide an excellent source of vitamin C to aid the absorption of iron and help fight infections.

Product Description

Sunny Days Apple Snack Bars pack the juicy flavor of fresh picked apples inside a wholesome and delicious cereal crust. Individually wrapped, they are a quick and easy healthy snack to eat on-the-go.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000ER1ENQ
• UPC: 023923201903
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,525 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best for the little ones..., February 23, 2011

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Jarucia Jaycox Nirula "~A Pink American" (Seattle, WA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Earth's Best Organic Sunny Days Snack Bars, Apple, 5.3-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6) (Grocery)

After reading a number of confusing reviews that highlight LARGE discrepancies in sugars, organics and nutrition contents, I decided to investigate for myself.


I compared Earth's Best Apple snack bars (my little guy's favorite) with Health Valley Apple Cobble cereal bars and Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Apple Cinnamon.


Packaging:


Earth's Best snack bars are KID-sized. Only 19g.


The other two are 37g each.


As most parents know, having things in smaller packages is handy because kids often don't eat all of what you give them. So unless you always remember to carry extra baggies or storage containers around, Earth's Best has the no-waste edge.


***For the rest of this review, the numbers I give for Earth's best are based on a doubling of serving size from 19g to 38g so as to be on relative equal footing with the other two bars***


Sugars:


Nutri-Grain (NG): 12g

Health Valley (HV): 16g

Earth's Best (E'sB): 18g


So, yes, Earth's best does have the highest sugar content of the three, but that's assuming your child will eat the whole 37/38g worth of bar.


Mine won't.


And, if you consider the source of the sugars (which, believe it or not, matters to some people), Health Valley and Earth's Best derive theirs primarily from evaporated can juice, honey, and the apple itself.


Nutri-Grain lists high-fructose corn syrup and plain ol' sugar almost a dozen ingredients before you actually see 'apple puree' listed.


One final sugar note, when ANY kind of fruit is reduced to a concentrate, its level of sugar (fructose) becomes concentrated as well. That's why it may take a whole apple to equal the same amount of sugar found in a couple of tablespoons of the concentrated apple found in a processed snack.


Ingredients:


Just a reminder, what's listed first on the ingredients label is what the product contains the most of, and so on down to the bottom.


If you think your child is eating an apple snack bar, then apple should be the first thing list, not near the last.


Organics:

Read the labels thoroughly.


Healthy Vally claims 70% organic.


Earth's Best claims made with Organic Whole Wheat.


Neither of these items claims to be 'ORGANIC' in its entirety. So don't be miffed if you see the word and think it means the whole product only to find out it doesn't.


Other Nutrition consideration:


Fiber: This is the one truly weak point of Earth's Best. It list NONE. The other two each list 3g. Now, I'm not 100% certain that 0g for the E'sB 19g serving also means 0g for a double serving, but it's safe to assume that it would still be less than 1g.


Vitamins: E'sB wins this one. Narrowly beating out Nutri-grain with added Zinc, Iron, Thiamin and Folic Acid, though a tad less on Riboflavin and Niacin.


Health Valley has modest amounts of vitamins, but nothing to compare with the other two.


This said, if you're the kind of parent who is truly concerned about a well-balanced diet, you know that the value of vitamins from these sources isn't as good as getting them from fresh fruits and vegetables, so don't bank on these bars as a multivitamin alternative.


Sodium:

NG: 110mg

HV: 85mg

E'sB: 90mg (45mg/19g)


Protein:

At the 37/38g serving size, all offer 2g.


Total carbs:

NG: 24g (8%)

HV: 27g (9%)

E'sB: 28g (9%)...but 14g/19g serving size


Calories:

NG: 120

HV: 130

E'sB: 140...70/19g serving size


And an added note on calories: kids are active little things and hardly want to sit to eat or do anything to take away from their play/work.


While I do prefer to give my little guy as much 'fresh' stuff as possible (and I give him a fair amount), he fills up on it, but burns through the energy (i.e. calories) quickly and is loathe to pause long to eat again.


This said, when you can find a SMALL, tasty supplemental snack that's relatively healthy and also packs on the calories for your little one, then you often stick with it.


The Verdict:


If cost is the most important factor when choosing a cereal bar, then, yes, Nutri-Grain is likely your best bet.


If convenience of size and nutritional content drive you (despite cost), then Earth's Best is definitely the way to go.


Health Valley has it's taste merits, but lacks in other ways.


I 100% believe of the value of paying a little more for Earth's Best smaller bars because it provides a compact, calorie and nutrient rich snack that is fairly healthy.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Organic does not equal healthy, April 14, 2009

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Juniper (Santa Cruz) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Earth's Best Organic Sunny Days Snack Bars, Apple, 5.3-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6) (Grocery)

We received two of the Earth's Best Bars in a holiday gift bag for our toddler. In an 18 gram bar, there were about 6 grams of sugar--a full third of the bar is sugar. No wonder there are rave reviews about how much the toddlers are enjoying them!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kids Love These Bars, May 26, 2008

By 

Jill Lenden (Columbia, MD 21045) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Earth's Best Organic Sunny Days Snack Bars, Apple, 5.3-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6) (Grocery)

Our kids (2 and 4) love these bars. They've been eating them since about age 1 -- bars are moist, flavorful. The bars also travel well; we always take them with us on family outings, short or long, and we know the kids will eat them.