Fresh fruit is delicious and healthful, but you can’t always lug around apples, oranges, grapes, and more, especially when you’re traveling. Enter a new alternative: Crispy Green Crispy Fruit, dehydrated fruit that’s got the crunch of chips with all the sweetness and nutrition of fresh fruit.

Crispy Green has figured out how to dehydrate fresh fruit into a fun and delicious snack that’s light and easy to carry. Now I’ve oven-dried fruit or dried it in a dehydrator with varying results. Crispy Green has figured out how to freeze-dry fresh fruit with no additives and no preservatives for a delicious result. They remove 99% of the water in the fruit, leaving behind intensely flavored “essence” of fruit with a light, crispy texture.

Crispy Green Fruit comes in individual packets easy to tuck inside your backpack or suitcase.

Because Crispy Green Crispy Fruit is so light weight (individual packets weight only 1/3 of an ounce), it’s perfect for travel. And because the fruit crisps are so flavorful, it’s satisfying with only 40-55 calories per pack (depending on the fruit). If you have trouble getting your kids or grandkids to eat fruit, Crispy Green Crispy Fruit is a great alternative. In addition to just eating it straight from the bag, you can add it to cereal for a bit of crunch and sweetness, mix it with nuts and seeds as trail mix, sprinkle it over frozen yogurt or ice cream, stir it into muffin mix or cookie batter, add it to salads, or blend it with yogurt for a quick breakfast of snack.

You can add Crispy Green Crispy Fruit to cereal for a bit of sweet nutrition.

Crispy Green Crispy Fruit is certified kosher and non-GMO. It comes in eight flavors: Crispy Pear, Crispy Apple, Crispy Mango, Crispy Banana, Crispy Cantaloupe, Crispy Tangerine, Crispy Asian Pear and Crispy Pineapple.

Crispy Fruit is available online and at retailers such as The Fresh Market, Harris Teeter, ShopRite, Giant Eagle Market District, Earth Fare, Ahold, Schnucks, Dierbergs Markets, King Kullen, Safeway and some Whole Foods Markets. www.crispygreen.com