It’s back-to-school time, warn the editors at Consumer Reports, and that means it’s time to answer an annual question:

“How tasty are lunch box options when your children won’t eat fresh fruit?”

The answer, say the kids who recently taste-tested packaged fruit cups for Consumer Reports:

“It depends.”

Let me interrupt this fascinating bit of science for full disclosure: as a mother of two (one of whom was only rarely picky, the other a bottomless pit of imminent starvation), I feel compelled to say that any kid of mine who would dare to advise me that they “won’t eat fresh fruit” would be going hungry. Continue reading →