YumEarth Organic Fruit Snacks, 10 count box (strawberry, cherry, peach)

1. Ingredients 40% of the rating 4 of 5

   Ten items, organic, colors from fruit and vegetable concentrates and no gelatin, but an unnamed organic natural flavor, and rice syrup (which our category prefers to avoid, since brown rice syrup can carry arsenic) is the first ingredient.

2. Sugar 15% of the rating 2 of 5

   11 g of added sugar in a 19.8 g pack (22% of the daily value), per iHerb's panel for YumEarth's 35-pack of the same fruit snacks.

3. Independent testing 20% of the rating 2 of 5

   We found no published metals or arsenic result for these snacks.

4. Trust 10% of the rating 3 of 5

   A 2016 labeling recall and two 2022 Prop 65 lead notices on other candies, one settled; none names fruit snacks.

5. Value 15% of the rating 3 of 5

   About $1.78 an ounce at the maker, 85 cents an ounce at Walmart.

The rating, 3.1 of 5, is the weighted average of these scores. See how we rank sweets & candy and our standard.

• Walmart (opens in a new tab) approx. $5.97. Sold and shipped by Walmart.com on 5 Nov 2026; about half the maker's price. Other sellers on the page start at $10.29. Its ingredient list did not load for us; Target's 10-count lists sunflower oil and carnauba wax that the maker's list lacks.

Prices as we saw them on November 6, 2026. They change often. These links carry no tracking code and earn us nothing.

1. Organic rice syrup
2. Organic cane sugar
3. Water
4. Pectin
5. Organic natural flavors
6. Ascorbic acid (vitamin C)
7. Sodium citrate
8. Citric acid
9. Colored with organic fruit and vegetable concentrates
10. Malic acid

• Independent California Attorney General, Prop 65 consent judgment, Environmental Research Center v. YummyEarth Inc. August 2022

  Settled by consent judgment in August 2022 over lead alleged in YumEarth's Organic Licorice (strawberry, pomegranate, peach) and its Watermelon Wet-Face pop. YumEarth agreed to keep each to 0.5 micrograms of lead a day or carry a California warning, and to test each once a year for at least three years. The fruit snacks are not named. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Do fruit snacks have lead?

A different brand's fruit snack drew a lead notice: Annie's Peel-A-Parts Organic Fruit (opens in a new tab) in 2022, which is why we looked. For YumEarth, the California list (opens in a new tab) shows two 2022 notices, for licorice and one lollipop (the first settled in August 2022 by consent judgment with yearly lead testing; the second, on black licorice, has no outcome posted), and none names fruit snacks. We found no lab result for these snacks.

Is the color really from food?

The maker's label says "colored with organic fruit and vegetable concentrates" and the box says no artificial dyes (maker (opens in a new tab)). Synthetic dyes are the ones linked to behavior changes in some children (review (opens in a new tab)).

Is rice syrup a problem?

It can be. Dartmouth researchers (opens in a new tab) found arsenic in some organic brown rice syrups. YumEarth does not say which rice syrup it uses or publish a result. Our category prefers cane sugar, tapioca syrup or fruit; we counted this under ingredients.

Has YumEarth been recalled?

Not these snacks. openFDA (opens in a new tab) lists three Class II 2016 entries for gummy bears and worms with a misprinted carbohydrate figure, closed.

• Colors from organic fruit and vegetable concentrates, no artificial sweetener, no gelatin; pectin sets it.
• Organic and free of the top allergens, per the maker.
• Sold at Walmart for about half the maker's price, so it is the cheapest dye-free fruit snack we list.

• Two-thirds of a pack is sugar, and the first two ingredients are sugars.
• Unnamed organic natural flavors.
• No metals or arsenic result found.
• Target lists a 10-count box of YumEarth fruit snacks whose ingredients add organic sunflower oil and organic carnauba wax, which the maker’s page does not. We could not read Walmart’s ingredient list, so check the box you buy.
• We did not open the nutrition panel of this exact 10-count box; the sugar figure is from the 35-pack, whose ingredient list matches the maker’s.

1. YumEarth: Organic Fruit Snacks. Maker’s page. Ingredients, claims and $12.49 price, read 5 Nov 2026. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
2. Walmart: YumEarth Organic Fruit Snacks, 10 ct. Independent source. $5.97, sold and shipped by Walmart.com. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
3. iHerb: YumEarth Fruit Snacks, Variety, 35 snack packs. Independent source. Nutrition panel, 11 g sugar per 19.8 g pack. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
4. California Attorney General: Prop 65 notice 2022-00141. Certifier or regulator listing. YumEarth lead notice, settlement of 8 August 2022 and consent judgment naming three licorices and a watermelon pop. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
5. California Attorney General: Prop 65 notices naming YummyEarth. Certifier or regulator listing. Searched 5 Nov 2026. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
6. California Attorney General: Prop 65 notice 2022-03172 (Annie's). Certifier or regulator listing. Lead notice on another brand's organic fruit snack. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
7. openFDA food enforcement reports, Yummy Earth. Certifier or regulator listing. Three 2016 Class II entries. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
8. Miller et al., Potential impacts of synthetic food dyes on activity and attention in children (Environ Health, 2022). Test report. PMID 35484553, opened via esummary and abstract. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
9. Jackson et al., Arsenic, organic foods, and brown rice syrup (Environ Health Perspect, 2012). Test report. PMID 22336149, opened via esummary. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)

• Torie & Howard Assorted Organic Hard Candy Hard candy colored from vegetables, 11 g of sugar in five pieces, cheaper per ounce.

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