Introduced in 1941, the Donald Duck juice brand wasn't always a big focus of the company. The company's website explains that it has a licensing agreement with Disney. The juice is produced by Citrus World Inc., which is based in Lake Wales, Florida. Perhaps most surprisingly, should you be in your local Dollar Tree, you may come across a bottle of Donald Duck orange juice or possibly other flavors. A press release in Business Wire tells us that Disney has even released "branded fruits and vegetables" as part of a collaboration with DOLE to promote healthier foods for children. CNBC reports that the park's "Star Wars"-themed attractions usually include specially designed foods such as bao buns, bubble waffles, and wildly innovative cocktails to better immerse guests in the atmosphere. Then we found that there can be as many as 10 grams of sodium per cup of unsweetened apple juice (see this), which makes us wonder if the reason GV and Musselman's apple sauces contain sodium is because they're putting apple juice in it.Food plays a surprisingly large role in the Disney empire, especially in its theme parks. This threw us for a loop (why would apple sauce contain sodium?) Salt is not listed in the ingredient list of either the Musselman's or GV apple sauce, so we did some research and found that an apple contains at most 1-2 grams of sodium, and that ascorbic acid does not contain sodium. The second strange (alarming) thing we found in the nutritional information was that the GV and Musselman's apple sauce cups contained 10 mg of sodium per cup. Which makes it seem like these companies are following different rules when listing nutritional information. But the Musselman's apple sauce lists ascorbic acid as an ingredient and does not indicate that it has vitamin C. So it makes sense that the Great Value apple sauce has 100%, since it contains ascorbic acid, and the Mott's has only 20%, since it does not contain ascorbic acid. So we did a little research and found out that ascorbic acid is a form of vitamin C. This doesn't really make sense to us given that apples are apples and should contain the same vitamins. Two strange things caught our attention - the Great Value apple sauce indicates that is has 100% of the RDV (recommended daily value) of vitamin C, but Mott's listed vitamin C at 20% and the Musselman's had 0%. The Great Value and Musselman's apple sauces had 12 grams of carbohydrates per cup and 8 grams of sugars, while Mott's had 13 grams of carbohydrates and 11 grams of sugar Great Value and Musselman's each listed 2 grams of fiber, while Mott's had 1 gram and Great Value and Mott's each listed 85 mg of potassium (the Musselman's did not list any potassium). The GV and Mott's apple sauce also contained ascorbic acid.Ĭalories/Nutritional Information: Each type of apple sauce had 50 calories per cup. Ingredients: There are two primary ingredients in all natural apple sauce - which probably isn't surprising for something so simple - apples and water. Doing these calculations made us realize why we didn't include Musselman's in the first place - it's becuase we had never bought it before because it costs so much more! The Mott's apple sauce was in between at about 8.5 cents per ounce, or 20% more than the Great Value apple sauce. So Musselman's ended up being 9 cents per ounce, or 28% more than the Great Value apple sauce, which was 7 cents per ounce. Price: GV and Musselman's apple sauce cups were a full 4 oz. We realized after starting our analysis that most stores carry these three primary brands, so we thought we better include it! Wow it's been a long time since we've posted - sorry about that! As you've probably gathered by now based on the things we post about ( Cheerios, Peanut Butter, Chocolate Syrup), we have little ones, so with all the end of summer/beginning a new school year activities that go along with that, our kids are the excuse we're using for being so delinquent in posting (and BTW, I'm sure we'll use the kids as our excuse again in the future, so don't be surprised!). Well here's another one for all you moms out there - apple sauce! (We're spelling that as two words, because that's what's on the labels of the products we reviewed, but we were sure it was one word, and it seems to be used as one word all the time - which do you prefer?) We chose to review Mott's, Musselman's and Great Value all natural no sugar added/unsweetened apple sauce, because that's the type we buy for our kids (it makes us feel better about feeding them the occasional cherry frosted Pop-Tart - post on those to come!) Also the Musselman's is in a picture by itself because it was a late entry.
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