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Here is something my kids begged for: lemonade! Specifically, mango lemonade. Not because they're fancy, but because the lady at the store gave them a sample then we could never stop hearing about how "good it is, Mom, it's SO GOOD! PLEASE BUY SOME! PLEASE! Please?" Ingredients: Filtered water, organic evaporated cane sugar, organic mango puree, organic lemon juice concentrate, natural flavors. How does it taste? To me (Shin Ae), an adult who does not generally choose to drink lemonade, it is less than awesome. Considerably less. I like powdered lemonade mixes, and I like freshly-squeezed lemonade, but this is something in-between the two, and it's not so good. It's made from concentrated lemon juice, and you can definitely tell. You know that lemon juice you can buy at the grocery store in the green bottle? What is the name of that stuff? Oh. Just, "lemon juice?" Okay, well, that's the stuff I mean. If you like the taste of that, you will l...

Okay! We will start at the beginning, which means what we've got in the house right now. Trader Joe's Freeze Dried Strawberries, unsweetened and unsulfured. Pretty simple. PRETTY AWESOME. Ingredients: Freeze dried strawberries. How do they taste?: Really, really good. Four out of four people in our family like them. They taste like...strawberries. Less squishy. Otherwise, similar. Squish isn't a flavor, but you know. It adds a certain SOMETHING to the fresh berry, right? What we love: (1) They aren't sweetened, so that's nice if you are trying not to eat added sugar, obvs. (2) Unsulfured. In our opinion, this always tastes better. I (Shin Ae) am always put in mind of the very bowels of hell when I taste sulfur, which is not masked by the flavor of any food, no way, no how. I even get really sad when I taste it in wine, which is pretty much always. HATE SULFUR. Anyway, none of that here, so that's a win. (3) Our kids like these. Freeze-dried fruit in ge...