Outshine Fruit Bars Recall: Which Flavors and What to Do?
Five Outshine Fruit Bar flavors and the Variety Pack are being pulled nationwide over possible glass fragments. Check your freezer for six specific UPCs with best-by dates from May 31, 2027 through November 30, 2027; if a box matches, return it for a refund or throw it out. No illnesses have been reported, and the clinical picture for anyone who already ate a bar is more reassuring than the word 'glass' suggests. There's a short list of symptoms, though, that would turn a scare into a visit.
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream updated its voluntary nationwide recall on select Outshine Fruit Bars on August 18, 2026, after consumers reported finding glass in the product. It's narrow: six SKUs, one date window, no confirmed injuries. Pineapple, sugar-free varieties, and other Outshine products aren't on the list. Five minutes at the freezer is enough to know whether you're affected.
The six products to check for
The recall covers five 6-count flavors of Fruit Bars plus the 24-count Variety Pack. All best-by dates fall between May 31, 2027 and November 30, 2027. Match both the UPC on the side of the box and the best-by date printed on the packaging.
| Flavor / Product | UPC | Pack size |
|---|---|---|
| Strawberry Fruit Bars | 041548610047 | 6-count, 2.5 oz |
| Grape Fruit Bars | 041548244044 | 6-count, 2.5 oz |
| Watermelon Fruit Bars | 041548413624 | 6-count, 2.5 oz |
| Black Cherry Fruit Bars | 041548000121 | 6-count, 2.5 oz |
| Tangerine Fruit Bars | 041548612041 | 6-count, 2.5 oz |
| Variety Pack | 041548816678 | 24-count, 2.5 oz |
If a box matches, don't eat the bars. Return it to the store for a full refund or throw it out. Dreyer's is answering recall questions at 800-392-4885 (Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET). Fruit bars keep a long time, so a box bought months ago may still be sitting under the ice cube tray. The full lot code list is on the FDA's recall page. As of this writing, the FDA hasn't published a recall classification, and the manufacturer hasn't disclosed the source of the glass.
If someone already ate a bar
The word sounds catastrophic. The clinical picture isn't. In a single-center pediatric series of 580 children who swallowed sharp or pointed foreign bodies, glass made up about a third of what they swallowed. No child had an intestinal perforation. None needed surgery. About 86% of the objects passed on their own, with a mean transit time of roughly a day and a quarter. It's one retrospective series, but it's the largest dedicated look at sharp-object ingestion in kids.
Adult data point the same way. Across observational series of adults who swallowed foreign bodies, 80% to 90% pass through the gut without any intervention, and only about 1% to 5% end up needing surgery. In a retrospective cohort of 303 adults, the strongest predictor of needing an operation wasn't sharpness. It was length. Each extra centimeter of object raised the odds of surgery by about two-thirds, and sharp objects were actually less likely to require an operation than blunt ones. Small, sharp things tend to move; long things get stuck. These figures come from different populations, not a single pooled estimate.
A small fragment from a fruit bar is far more likely to pass uneventfully than to cause injury. If you or your child swallowed a piece and feels fine, watching and waiting is reasonable. Most objects show up in the stool within a day or two.
The symptoms that do warrant a call
A short list of things shifts the picture from probably fine to be seen now. In one 194-patient cohort, sharp edges raised the risk of a complication or endoscopic failure by about two and a half times over blunt objects, and impaction lasting more than 12 hours roughly doubled that risk. Other cohorts show complications climbing further past 24 hours, so the outer window is a day at most. Pediatric gastroenterology guidelines recommend urgent endoscopic removal for any object lodged in the esophagus, because that's where perforation, abscess, and worse tend to happen.
Get medical attention promptly after a suspected ingestion for any of the following:
- Chest, throat, or belly pain, especially pain behind the breastbone
- Trouble or pain with swallowing
- Drooling or an inability to handle saliva
- Vomiting, particularly repeated vomiting or vomiting blood
- Blood in the mouth or in the stool, or black tarry stools
- Fever
- A young child who ate a piece, or any ingestion no one actually witnessed
In a multicenter derivation study of 5,864 children, drooling, difficulty swallowing, and pain behind the breastbone had the highest odds of predicting the need for endoscopic or surgical intervention. Take an unwitnessed ingestion seriously on its own; a child may look fine even with something lodged. Don't induce vomiting. Don't try to push it through with bread or fiber. Go in.
What this recall does and doesn't tell you
This is a voluntary recall on a defined set of packages, prompted by consumer reports rather than confirmed injuries. It's a real hazard worth acting on, and it's also narrow. A few things would change how urgently to treat it: an FDA upgrade to Class I, a confirmed injury tied to the recall, expansion to other flavors like Pineapple or the sugar-free line, or release of the full lot code list. Until then, the response isn't panic. It's five minutes at the freezer, and knowing when a swallowed fragment stops being a scare and becomes a visit.