The 25 Greatest Fruit Snacks of All Time

Fruit snacks that are just as sweet as they are nostalgic.

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There was nothing more exciting then opening up your lunch box and finding your favorite fruit snack underneath the boring healthy stuff that your mother packed for you. Kids would always try to trade their way into your lunch box, and fruit snacks were the most valuable form of food currency. Somehow (we can't explain the complicated science behind it) the variety of shapes, from sharks to your favorite television characters, had a great influence on how the individual gummy tasted.

We bring you back to your gradeschool cafeteria (lunch ladies, be damned) with The Greatest Fruit Snacks of All Time.

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25. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fruit Snacks

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24. Arthur Fruit Snacks

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23. Amazing Fruit Gummy Bears

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Maker: Hershey Foods Corporation

Keep note, ladies and gentlemen, Amazing Fruit did the personified gummy bears long before the Sour Patch Kids were cutting people's hair off. Points for being pioneers.

22. Create-A-Dino

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21. Super Mario Fruit Snacks

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20. N*SYNC Fruit Snacks

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19. Operation Fruit Snacks

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18. Sunkist Fun Fruit

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17. Sodalicious Fruit Snacks

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16. Hi-C Fruit Snacks

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15. Fruit Snack Maker Set

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14. Tiny Toons Fruit Snacks

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13. Fruit Leather

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12. Thunder Jets Fruit Snacks

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11. Legend of Zelda: The Adventure of Link Fruit Snacks

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10. Garfield Fruit Snacks

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9. Flinstones Gummy Vitamins

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8. Scooby Doo Fruit Snacks

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7. Darkwing Duck Fruit Snacks

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6. Welch's Fruit Snacks

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5. Fruit Rollups

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4. Fruit by the Foot

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3. Fruit String Things

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2. Fruit Gushers

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1. Shark Bites

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