Dehydrated Fruit
 

So. I bought some dehydrated fruit from a Farmers Market thinking that it is just fruit with less water and it would be a good alternative snack..... UM NOT SO MUCH!!!!!!!! A 1/2 cup of dehydrated apples is 190 calories. THAT IS CRAZY!!!!! So now I have these dehydrated apples and Im afraid to eat them.....:?:

I just have never understood that. It is just dried out fruit! Why so much sugar in it? I guess it gets concentrated with the water removed.
I feel your pain!! Love the stuff, but it really packs on calories.

Don't be afraid to eat them... just eat less of them. You could put about 1/4th of a cup into some oatmeal in the morning, you could make some trailmix (it's usually high calorie but a really good snack), you could make some breakfast muffins or granola bars and stick them in there.

Use them in a salad or something. I stay away from dried fruit because they are basically sugar bombs :) I have eaten them on occasion but not by themselves.

I don't eat them often either. I make some oatmeal breakfast bars sometimes and put some in, but that's about it. It makes sense though if an apple has about 80 calories and half a cup of dried apple bits is the same as a couple of apples. It's only water that's been removed, not calories. But some dried fruits do have sugar added too, so you have to be careful.

I hear ya! I love those Ocean Spray "Craisins" but they're like 150 cals for 1/3 of a cup hahah I could eat 2 cups in one sitting ;)

I used to wonder about that whole sugar/calorie thing also, until a friend explained it to me. Similar explanation can be found here:
http://nutrition.about.com/od/askyou...ried_fruit.htm