Mott's Medleys Fruit Snacks (Assorted Berry): Nutrition & Labelgrade C (62/100)

The short answer

Mott’s Medleys Fruit Snacks (Assorted Berry) delivers 0g of protein and 80 calories per 1 POUCH (USDA FDC 1636112). Per 100g that’s 0g of protein; per oz, 0g. The Labelgrade is C (62 / 100): Very low saturated fat.

Why this Labelgrade

Why the grade looks generous

A C on a bag of gummies is the most misleading number on this page, so here’s the honest reading. The Labelgrade scores six dimensions, and for a fruit snack the high marks come almost entirely from absence: no saturated fat (A+), barely any sodium (A-), and low calories because the pouch is small. Most of the card is crediting Mott’s for not containing things a fruit gummy was never going to contain. The dimension that should actually steer you — sugar — is an outright F here, the weakest of the three brands we grade, because at ~10g per 23g pouch this is the most sugar-dense of the bunch. That single failing score, diluted across five forgiving ones, still nets out to a 62.

Flip the grade around to use it correctly. The C isn’t saying “good food”; it’s saying “an unremarkable small candy with nothing alarming in it.” That’s worth knowing — it means there’s no hidden villain, just sugar and flavor. But anyone who reads C as “62% as nourishing as fruit” has been misled by a scale that was built to rank protein foods, not to tell candy apart from produce. When the grade and your gut disagree about a fruit gummy, your gut is right.

The cleaner label that’s still candy

Mott’s Medleys deserves credit where the ingredient list earns it — and then a reality check. The credit: there’s no gelatin (these set with fruit pectin, so they’re vegetarian) and no synthetic dyes (color comes from vegetable and fruit juice, not Red 40 or Blue 1). Against the dye-and-gelatin formulas of Welch’s and Black Forest, that’s a genuine, if narrow, win, and it’s why the ingredient-quality dimension grades a notch higher here.

The reality check: a cleaner label sits on top of a sugar product. The first two ingredients are corn syrup and sugar, ahead of any fruit — pear juice concentrate, apple juice concentrate, and strawberry purée don’t appear until positions four through six, and juice concentrate is fruit with the fiber stripped and the sugar boiled down to a syrup. So the formula is two added sweeteners, then concentrated fruit sugar, then starch and pectin to gel it. Swapping gelatin for pectin and dyes for juice-color makes this a better-built candy; it does not move it toward being fruit. The wholesome-sounding Mott’s name and the dye-free label can create the impression of a health food, and the impression is the misleading part — not the ingredients themselves, which are exactly what they say they are.

How it compares

Scope

This page covers Mott’s Medleys Fruit Snacks (Assorted Berry), UPC 016000477087, as represented in USDA Branded Foods FDC 1636112. Mott’s sells multiple variants in this product line — other sizes, flavors, or fat levels may have different macros and Labelgrade scores. Manufacturers periodically reformulate; always cross-reference the actual package label, especially if you have allergies or dietary restrictions.

Ingredients (from the USDA Branded Foods entry)

CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, PEAR JUICE CONCENTRATE, APPLE JUICE CONCENTRATE, STRAWBERRY PUREE, CARROT JUICE CONCENTRATE. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: FRUIT PECTIN, CITRIC ACID, VITAMIN C (ASCORBIC ACID), DEXTROSE, SODIUM CITRATE, MALIC ACID, POTASSIUM CITRATE, SUNFLOWER OIL, VEGETABLE AND FRUIT JUICE ADDED FOR COLOR, NATURAL FLAVOR, CARNAUBA WAX.

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Scope: This page applies specifically to Medleys Fruit Snacks (Assorted Berry) · UPC 016000477087. Other sizes, flavors, or formulations may differ.