impostors'' when preparing their child's school lunch.

It states that parents and kids innocently get lured into thinking that certain products such as "real'' fruit snacks, fruit drinks and punches are a suitable substitute for real fruit in the diet.

Unfortunately, this is far from the truth.

Most fruit snacks contain about 30 percent fruit -- this would amount to about one-and-a-half grapes or one-seventeenth or an orange per package! A parent only needs to try a "real'' fruit snack to discover that they are basically candy -- the sort that really sticks to your teeth and is difficult to get off.

In fact one package contains the equivalent of five and a half teaspoons of sugar. By US law, a US label must state the ingredient present in the greatest quantity first on the ingredients list.

So you may well ask, if this is so, why isn't fruit the first ingredient listed? Fruit drink, cocktails, punches and blends are another example. They contain a small amount of juice that is diluted with water, and sweeteners added. Most box drinks contain 10 percent juice.