A really great dessert for your low-sugar, low-sodium patients or residents.  The six flavors: Cinnamon Sweet Apple, Truly Sweet Blueberry, Red’N Sweet Cherry, Peach, Pina Colada, and Strawberry give you instant variety! Long term care patients tire of apples, oranges and grapefruit, particularly in midwinter.  Six flavors means variety at your fingertips.

Instant - well, not quite, but very easy.  For that homemade look, add water and bake for 30 minutes.  Rushed for time - try the directions for Fruit Toppings or Pie Filling - you just add water, stir, let stand for five minutes and serve.

Serving suggestions include: as a Fruit Topping on pancakes or rolled up inside pancakes, as a spread for toast, over a cheesecake, with waffles, yogurt, diet pudding or ice milk, plus many other ways you will think of.  Can also be baked as a pie on crisp filling.

Nutritional highlights: all flavors except Pina Colada contain 55 calories per ¼ cup portion.  This can be calculated as one fruit exchange.  Pina Colada at 60 calories equals one fruit and ⅓ fat exchange.  All six qualify for a very low sodium rating at 10 mgs.  The fruit content of each flavor consists of fruit-flavored low moisture apples which standardizes the caloric value.

Yield when baked in a 9" x 13" pan, cut 2½" x  2½" will be 24-¼ cup servings.  Instant preparation yield will also be approximately 24-¼ cup each. 

Gluten Free