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We'd like to take a stand on behalf of the fake fruit industry. Sure, actual strawberries and apples may be nutritious, but fake fruit snacks give us the illusion of eating something somewhat healthy while enjoying a snack-y treat. To help fill our daily fruit (and fructose) requirement, we tested two schoolyard faves.
Welch's Fruit Snacks, Fruit Punch flavor
Fruit by the Foot, Berry Tie-Dye flavor

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Appearance: Fruit-shaped candy chews in different colors, packaged in small, white pouches.
 Appearance: A long roll of white paper with red and blue FBTF rolled up with it. It stretches out to 12 inches of the gummy, multi-colored snack.
Cost: $1.97 for 10 pouches
 Cost: $2.14 for six
Calories: 80 calories, 0 g. fat
 Calories: 80 calories, 1 g. fat
Taste: A serious burst of fruity flavor in every chew. Too bad the flavors are all pretty indistinct from each other. When we bite into a strawberry-shaped snack, we want to taste berries. But even if the tastes are similar, they've all got a fruit juice quality that's really satisfying, especially considering it came out of a box.

 Taste: Not like any berry we've ever tasted, but still moderately pleasant. Extra points for the different, tie-dyed flavors that are ridiculously tasty when chewed together. But whatever credit it gains for diversity, it loses for its overall flat, saccharine-rich bite.
Our pick: Welch's Fruit Snacks. Juicy snacks always rule over syrupy sweet rolls with us. Even with faux fruits, we still appreciate the relative authentic fruitiness of the Fruit Snacks.

Tell us! Do you have a fruit snack favorite?