FROZEN FRUIT POPS
A healthful, affordable recipe.
It is a tasty, healthful and inexpensive way to take advantage of whatever fruit is seasonally available. Use single fruits or combine several for special "house blends."
4 hours to freeze
Serves: 12
Blender or Food Processor:
1 ripe honeydew melon
2 ripe bananas
2 pints ripe strawberries
1/4 cup honey or sugar
1. Help children peel, seed, and cut fruit into chunks. Put fruit and honey or sugar in blender in small batches and puree. (Pops will taste less sweet when they are frozen.)
2. Ladle the puree into Popsicle molds and freeze for at least 4 hours or until frozen.
Puree can be frozen in plastic ice cube trays. Poke Popsicle sticks into place when the pops are almost frozen so that the sticks will stay upright.
Nutrients per serving: one 2-oz pop
Calories 90; Saturated Fat 0.1 g; Iron 0.3 mg; Protein 1 g; Cholesterol 0 mg; Calcium 14 mg; Carbohydrate 23 g; Vitamin A 7 RE; Sodium 11 mg; Total Fat 0.4 g; Vitamin C 55 mg; Dietary Fiber 2 g
USDA Food & Nutrition Services - Team Nutrition: Food, Family & Fun
www.usda.gov/
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