Philippine Brand – Dried Mango Pineapple Balls

Let’s start this presentation off with the Philippine Brand – Dried Mango Pineapple Balls!

Philippine Brand – Dried Mango Pineapple Balls

Let’s get the hard facts out of the way, shall we?

Ingredients:	Selected mangoes, pineapples, sugar & preserved with sulfur dioxide (also known as E220)
Net weight: 100g

For getting the Nutritional Facts one has to be quite tricksy since it was covered by the import sticker:

Who reads nutritional facts anyway, right?

Since that was no problem for me, here are the nutritional facts as they appear on the packaging:

Serving Size 1.5 oz (42g/about 6 pieces) Servings per Container about 2.1	Amount per serving	% Daily Value
Calories	160
Calories from fat	0
Total fat	0g
Cholosterol	0mg
Sodium	55mg	2%
Total Carbohydrates	39g	13%
Dietary Fiber	1g	4%
Sugars	32g
Protein less than	1g
Vitamin A		2%
Calcium		0%
Vitamin C		30%
Iron		2%

First of all I have to say that I like the realism of the serving size. These things are quite delicious, you won’t be able to stop at one unless you don’t like sweet things.

But let’s see what we get once we open the package:

individually wrapped balls

The balls are individually wrapped, while this might seem not really ecologically friendly let me assure you that if the balls weren’t individually wrapped they would stick together in one big sticky fruit blob.

A fruit ball!

There it is in all it’s glory. While you might think that this looks not really like dried fruit you have to keep in mind that this is a fruit blend! It is basically dried mango and pineapple puree in a little ball form covered with sugar.
And it is delicious. The fruits are naturally really sweet, so this is even sweeter but you can still taste the fruit. It has a rather chewy consistence for being dried fruit.

Chewy inside!

All in all I would definitely buy these again even though it might not be everyone’s thing since these are really really sweet! If you like sweet things you should definitely try these if you get the chance!

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