It’s what the astronauts use, honest! Freeze drying is an innovative technology that simply removes water from food but retains almost all of its original nutrients (97% in fact) at around 10-20% of the weight. Perfect if you’re in a spaceship or to be honest just want a crunchy, healthy, good for you snack that’s yum!

Do you see astronauts using air-dried food? JK, maybe they do? We’ve never been to space. But actually, freeze-drying is super gentle, and uses below zero temperatures (that’s the freeze part) to remove the water rather than heat (like with air dried). Because it’s gentle heaps of the original nutrients (97%!) are retained from our fruit – like vitamin C (obviously great for snotty noses)

We save fruit! In New Zealand alone, tonnes and tonnes of fruit each year gets wasted because it’s not pretty enough to pick, but it’s still perfect otherwise so we say - pick it! Then we use our magic, (astronaut) freeze-drying technology to turn it into super yum kids snacks.

In the last year we have saved 19,000kg of fruit in the last year that otherwise may not have made it to shelf. And this number is growing!

In New Zealand, we know who grows our fruit, like Unicorn Farms (yes, really) who grow our organic feijoas in sunny Ruby Bay in New Zealand – it’s run by Julian, he’s ace. And Stephan and his family who grow our apples in sunny (it’s a theme) Upper Moutere, in New Zealand, they’re also ace. We like to work with them to make sure the land is being looked after and that they don’t have to waste too much fruit.

Much of our packaging is recyclable (the cardboard part) and we use ocean bound plastic for pallet wrap and courier envelopes from Better Packaging Co. Currently we are unable to recycle the packs in New Zealand but we are looking into options for this.

We’re always working to find other ways to be kind to the planet and the people on it too – if you’ve got good ideas, we’d love to hear them

New Zealand-grown Gold Kiwifruit, Organic Feijoa, Blueberry and Apple for our Fruit Crispz.

For our Yoghurt Meltz Range the milk in our yoghurt is from New Zealand.

Then, Mangoes from Thailand, Strawberries from Egypt, Blueberries from China, Bananas, Sweet Potato, Tomato and Spinach from Malaysia.

Ah, we see you’re not from NZ. Feijoa (pronounced fee-jo-ah) is a small, delicious, green fruit a bit like a guava (but not a guava). It’s kinda grainy, and occasionally, if you’re lucky, you get one that makes your face pucker (in a good way) with a hit of feijoa sour. New Zealand is one of the only countries that eat feijoas on the regular (we’re about to change that, look out world NaturKidz is coming!). Feijoa season lasts approx. 7 seconds in NZ and, in that time, New Zealanders eat 12 x their weight in feijoas then spend the rest of the year wishing they had feijoas (it’s a fact, look it up)

NaturKidz Fruit Crispz in 4 yum flavours – Apple and Organic Feijoa Sticks, Gold Kiwi Slices, Apple Sticks and Blueberry, Apple Sticks.

NaturKidz Yoghurt Meltz in 4 amazing flavours - Blueberry, Strawberry, Mango and Banana

NaturKidz 100% Veggie Meltz in 2 delish flavours - Sweet Potato & Spinach, Sweet Potato and Tomato (they taste like Munchos IYKYK!)

Verified (by real kids): yum!

Our whole range is suitable for vegetarians.

And our Fruit Crispz and Veggie Meltz are suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

Noice!

Nah, why would we go and ruin a perfectly healthy & yum snack with added sugar!

Our Fruit Crispz Range and Veggie Meltz range are proudly dairy and gluten free.

Our Yoghurt Meltz are proudly gluten free but do contain dairy on account of the New Zealand milk we make our yoghurt with.

No, we don’t 😊

Goodness! Why would we do such a thing when real, wholefoods tastes so good!

No, thanks. Not here.