Mixed Berries

Today, instead of having my usual PopTarts for breakfast, I brought a granola bar to work with me that was called Mixed Berry. It was one of the Nature Valley Trail Mix flavors, and while it was tasty, I wouldn't go so far as to call it "Mixed" Berry. Looking closer at the wrapper, I read this, it was actually raspberry, strawberry, and blueberry flavored. You would think that this would mean that it would have these types of berries in it. Did it? No, it has "Natural Raspberry and Strawberry Flavored Fruit Pieces" These are actually Sugar, Dried Cranberries, Citric Acid, Natural Flavor, Elderberry Juice Concentrate, Sunflower Oil. Okay, so that leaves blueberries....or does it? Once again, its full of tasty Blueberry flavored Fruit Pieces made from Sugar, Dried Cranberries, Blueberry Juice Concentrate, Citric Acid, Natural Flavor, Sunflower Oil. At least the blueberry pieces had blueberry flavoring in them.

Why wasn't Cranberry listed as the type of berry? I think its because to many people don't like cranberries, but when you sugar them up, and change their flavor they'll eat them. They could have at least given the poor cranberry some credit, but it like the unfortunate elderberry doesn't make many people cry out for joy. (Has anyone actually had an elderberry? I don't even know what they look like, but I assume they are similar to a blackberry).