"This can touts that it's made without artificial flavors, and per our reviewer, it showed. It was cloyingly sweet, and there was a disappointingly high ratio of gel to mushy fruit, making it a product you're better off skipping."
"One customer who complained about the $3 price tag on the Duncan Hines website, where the filling rates just 2.1 stars out of 5, had this to say: 'Now I am putting brown cherries on my cheesecake. I'm sure I'll hear about this at the office Christmas party.'"
Cherry pie filling is challenging to make from scratch due to pitting fruit, achieving proper thickening, and balancing sweetness. Canned cherry pie fillings offer a convenient alternative. Eight store-bought brands were evaluated for flavor and texture quality. Duncan Hines Simply Wilderness emerged as the worst option despite marketing itself as made without artificial flavors. The product suffered from cloying sweetness, excessive gel content relative to actual fruit, and disappointing brown or grey coloring of the cherries. Multiple customer reviews confirmed these issues, with complaints about both quality and value at the $3 price point.
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