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If you are looking for ways for you and your children to eat healthier, the USDA recommends more fruits and vegetables in the diet. Fruit Sorbet is a healthy and delicious kid snack recipe. Fruit sorbet provides kids a delicious way to get a full serving of nutritious fruit that includes important vitamins and minerals. Even more important to the children is the taste of sorbet which is delicious.

Children like high calorie and fat laden ice cream but fruit sorbet can is a healthier substitute. Fruit sorbet is delicious, flavorful and easy to make. You can create a wonderful sorbet sundae as a healthy and enjoyable kid's snack. To eat healthier, simply replace higher-calorie snacks with fruit. Children learn that they can satisfy their cravings without resorting to empty sugary snacks.

Sorbet captures the essence of summer fruits and is virtually fat-free. Best of all this delicious desert is simple to make. Sorbet contains no milk.so it is a special treat for children who are lactose intolerant. Ice cream has air whipped into it, sorbet has almost no air, which makes sorbet a dense and extremely flavorful product.

Add any type of Berries to a sorbet recipe. Raspberries and strawberries make a delicious and healthy sorbet. Fruit Sorbet is packed with vitamins and fiber as has a fresh lovely sweet taste.

Many of the recipes work well with frozen berries too.

Raspberry Fruit Sorbet

Ingredients:

*2/3 cup of superfine sugar
*1 cup of water
*Purée 23 oz. raspberries with 1/4 cup lime juice.

Instructions:

1) Combine sugar and water in a medium sized saucepan.
2) Stir slowly over low heat until sugar is dissolved.
3) Bring mixture to a boil.
4) Boil for 1 minute.
5) Remove from heat and cool completely.
6) Mix the fruit purée in a food processor or blender.
7) Add the raspberry purée to the cooled sugar syrup and stir to combine.
8) Place the purée/sugar mixture into an ice-cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions.

If you do not have an ice cream maker, here is an alternative way to freeze the sorbet. Place the purée/sugar syrup in a metal bowl or cake pan and freeze for 1 hour. Remove from freezer and beat with an electric mixer or whisk; return to the freezer. Repeat at hourly intervals 3 more times.

Fruit Sorbet Sundae Deserts For Kids

Ingredients

*2 pints of sorbet of your choice
*2 ripe bananas, sliced
*2 teaspoons lemon juice
*1 pint strawberries sliced
*1 package wafer cookies

Instructions:

1) Set out sorbet and ice cream scoops.
2) Toss the sliced bananas in lemon juice to keep them from getting brown.
3) Set each topping in a separate bowl.
4) Let the kids choose and mix their sundaes.
5) Add real whipped cream for added fun.

This healthy snack for kids does contain sugar but the sugar can be reduced depending on the fruit's sugar content. This is a healthy way to enjoy fruit and a good way to introduce the taste buds to a healthy refreshing snack.

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