Comments on: Candy Review: Whole Foods: “Whole Treat” Pates de Fruits

By: cybele

cybele — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:00:02 +0000

The Cactus Candy has very little flavor, if any at all. It’s a nice texture but very sweet and without the tangy true-fruit notes that the pates have.

I tasted a bunch of the fruit pate at Charles Chocolates booth – they have two lines, one plain fruit and the other is wine flavored. I like their plain raspberry. I also had some French stuff at an importer called Crystal … but I don’t remember the name of who made it. It was orange and had some wonderful deep honey notes to it.

I found a fruit jellies place too but I can’t remember the name of it that had a bunch of different fruits like mango and pineapple and of course my fave … pink grapefruit. They didn’t have a card or any literature and now I can’t even remember their name.

By: Sera

Sera — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:23:26 +0000

Ohh, I’m jealous Cybele! You’ve gotten to taste all different types at the Fancy Food show! Which one have you liked best so far? I’m officially hooked on this stuff!

So are you saying Cactus Candy is more of an intensely flavored furit jelly rathar than a pate?

By: Mariko

Mariko — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:20:50 +0000

I love pates de fruits! I’ll look for them if I get to Whole Paycheck!

By: cybele

cybele — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:02:48 +0000

That sounds awesome. I tried a lot of fruit pates this week and have great respect for how they choose the fruit and condense them without losing the amazing fresh flavor.

I haven’t tried this particular brand but I can say that Cactus Candy is nothing like a good fruit pate … (I actually tried the Cactus Candy this week) … there’s a lot more fruit taste in there, the cactus stuff is more jelly than fruit. It’s making my mouth water just thinking about it.