Buddy Fruits
Buddy Fruits is a squeezable fruit pouch sold in the US market, offering a range of ready-to-eat fruit snacks produced by Ouhlala Gourmet Corp. It was founded in 2008. The company's headquarters are in Miami, Florida.
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| Industry | Food |
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| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Website | https://buddyfruits.com/ |
The founders launched the first pure fruit pouch in 2009 with 5 flavors of Pure Blended Fruits.[1] In the following years, Buddy Fruits also launched the first fruit smoothie in a pouch (Blended Fruits and Milk), the first fruit gel in a pouch (Pure Fruit Jiggle Gel), and the first larger pouches of Superfruits and of Cocomilk[2] targeting adults.
Buddy Fruits offers a range of seven lines of products.[3] They contain 100% fresh fruit, and are all natural with no preservatives, no artificial colors, and no additives.
Healthy innovations
In 2012, Buddy Fruits launched two flavors of 100% baked Apple Chips.[4] The baking process is a food cooking method using prolonged dry heat; on the other hand, the frying process, favored by most of the chips manufacturers, is the cooking of food in oil.[5]
Buddy Fruits also launched the first fruit gel in a pouch. It was presented as a healthier vegan alternative to the traditional gelatin snacks because it has no water, no high fructose corn syrup and no animal gelatin (Buddy Fruits uses fruit pectin instead).[6]
Sport endorsement
Buddy Fruits sponsors rising tennis player Christina McHale[7] and double Olympic medalist Dee Dee Trotter.[8] Buddy Fruits is also involved in its local community and supports the Miami Hurricanes and the Miami Dolphins. Buddy Fruits was the Official Healthy Snack of the 2013 Sony Open Tennis in Miami, Florida.
Distribution
Buddy Fruits provides its snack lines through a network of retail stores in the United States (Walmart, Safeway, Kroger, Publix), Canada, Europe, and in some countries in South America, Asia and the Middle-East. In the United States, Buddy Fruits’ products can also be found online.
See also
References
- The Best After-School Supermarket Snacks - Healthy Living - Everyday Health
- Buddy Fruits Debuts First Cocomilk and Fruit Pouch on the Market - Yahoo! Finance
- Buddy Fruits / About Us
- Buddy Fruits Apple Chips - Directions for Me Archived May 18, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- Scientists discover why we crave chips and fries | MNN - Mother Nature Network
- Buddy Fruits Unveils Jiggle Gel
- Christina McHale Teams Up With Buddy Fruits: This Week in Tennis Business with Justin Cohen | World Tennis Magazine
- Buddy Fruits, Deedee Trotter's official snack! - YouTube
Further reading
- Logsdon, Kay (July 1, 2008). "Buddy Fruits Uses NASA Styling to Deliver Real Fruit". The Food Channel. Retrieved June 9, 2016.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Miller, Susan R. (September 2, 2011). "French trio sees U.S. success with Buddy Fruits snack line". South Florida Business Journal. Retrieved June 9, 2016.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- "Eye on the Aisles: Buddy Fruits Lemon Tartlets". San Antonio Express-News. December 6, 2012. Retrieved June 9, 2016.