NutritionDoc

"Signature Selections Pies are made with the highest quality fruit picked at the peak of ripeness . . ." says the label on Sara Lee Fruits of the Forest Deep Dish Pie.

 

Pie is no health food, but Sara Lee's looks like an exception. With photos of luscious apples, rhubarb, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, Fruits of the Forest Deep Dish pie seems like a virtual cocktail of phytochemical-rich, vitamin packed fruits. "simmered in their own juices" to cut down on the added sugar. And it has a "flaky crust made with real butter", so you might expect to dodge the harmful trans fats in the partially hydrogenated oil that is used in most pies.

 

Just kidding.

 

Fruits of the Forest has more partially hydrogenated oil and sugar then any fruit except apples. And it is less than 2 % butter. Each serving (1/9 of a pie) has 340 calories, 4 grams of sat fat and 4 grams of trans fat. That is half a day's bad fat. 

 

It is essentially an ordinary apple pie all dressed up with nowhere ( but your arteries and waist) to go.