The Grocery Store Blues: Ocean Spray Craisins too sweet by half

Crap. I’m up a pant size and my son’s wedding is just around the corner.

So, this morning I bought a new pair of pants for my suit, size 35 waist, and when I returned home made salad and soup for lunch.

Okay, I know about salad dressing. Lots of fat in many cases.


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But I didn’t know how much sugar was in the Ocean Spray sweetened dried cranberries I sprinkled over my lettuce.

Nutrition facts:

In a 40 gram serving (or 1/3 cup) there are 26 grams of sugar.

When Ocean Spray proclaims that Craisins are “the sweetest way to eat a cranberry” they aren’t kidding.

No wonder they call them Craisins. After 14 grams of cranberries soak up 26 grams of sugar they are - legally - no longer cranberries.

And what’s a craisin?

Some manmade hybrid that’s sweeter than raisins by a long shot.

Ocean Spray should add:


The fastest way to shoot syrup into your butt

Instead they say - Fat and Cholesterol-Free

Whoop-dee-doos... I got the sugar blues.

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