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Have you ever tried a kumquat? Unlike oranges and mandarins, you don’t have to peel this tiny citrus. Just pop it in your mouth like a grape and bite down. “They have sweet skin and sour, tart interior pulp, so they’re eaten whole,” kumquat farmer Eva Pfeffer told The FruitGuys. “You can eat the entire fruit at once, and it’s
What’s your protein goal for the day? Everyone seems to have one! According to nutrition experts, adults should eat about .36 grams of protein per day for every pound they weigh, and a lot of office workers are taking that seriously. Luckily, the right break room snacks can help—like Mighty Spark’s Chicken Snack Sticks. The regular sticks deliver 6–7 grams
How do you make a candy bar that’s low-sugar, plant-based, gluten-free, and still tastes good? To find out, we asked Leanne Viola, the cofounder and chief snacking officer at Whims. She and her husband Jesse Barruch solved this office snack conundrum. The Secrets to a Delicious, Low-Sugar Candy Bar for the Workplace Whims makes peanut butter cups and chocolate bars
Supporting Black-owned food companies through your office snack program matters—during Black History Month and every day of the year. It’s a subtle but powerful way for your company to show its values. And when you find the right brands, it’s healthy and delicious, too! Here are two of our favorite Black- and female-owned businesses for offices. Their snacks are healthy, allergy-friendly, and easy for
In the chilly heart of winter, Rising C Ranches is alive with colorful exotic fruit. Bright yellow Buddha’s hands dangle from trees, reaching for the ground with bumpy fingers, and golfball-sized mandarinquats hang overhead like orange teardrops. It’s a winter wonderland of citrus—and Jacob Labogin, the director of farm and harvest operations, keeps it all going. “We pack around thirty-five
In the deep cold of a Chicago winter, when the trees are leafless and you have to wear snow boots to work, you might think that there’s no local fruit to be found. But peek inside an office fruit delivery from The FruitGuys, and you might find local gems—like apples from Lehman’s Orchard! Lehman’s is a third-generation family farm in
In 1962, Dr. Frieda Rapoport Caplan became the first woman to own a wholesale produce business in the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market. She introduced American consumers to such exotic produce as kiwis, mangoes, blood oranges, ginger, shallots, jicama, habanero peppers, brown mushrooms, purple potatoes, spaghetti squash, alfalfa sprouts, and more than 200 other items during her tenure leading Frieda’s
Is there a more perfect pairing than chocolate and peanut butter when you’re looking for a pick-me-up at work? It’s salty, sweet, and oh-so-enticing. How can you and your coworkers resist? Actually, you don’t have to—you just need to swap your candy for clean-ingredient office treats like KiZE Bars. KiZE (rhymes with “wise”) is an Oklahoma-based small business that specializes
What happens when a California fruit farm works with nature instead of against it? Stroll through the orchard at Earthseed Farm in Sebastopol and you’ll quickly find out. The farm is lush and green, abundant with Asian pear and persimmon trees. Earthseed’s team uses compost to enrich the soil, captures and redistributes rainwater, and controls pests with natural predators. “The
What’s your top priority when you reach for a snack in the office? For The FruitGuys’ customers, something with plenty of protein is high on their list. That’s why we’re so excited to bring a brand-new snack brand, Field Trip meat sticks, to our snack boxes this fall! Field Trips makes high-protein, low-sugar snacks for the office break room from
Are employees at your office asking for seed oil-free snacks? If they are, Artisan Tropic could be a great choice for your break room! The Hispanic-owned family business makes its chips in Colombia from farm-fresh cassava (a root vegetable) and plantains (a tropical fruit). It fries the chips in local Colombian palm oil. The FruitGuys recently teamed up with Artisan
Sweet-tart Gravenstein apples first arrived in California in 1811, and the trees in farmer John Kolling’s orchard in Sebastopol are almost old enough to remember. “Most of the old Gravs are huge trees—35 feet tall and spreading like crazy,” John told The FruitGuys. “They were planted around 1895.” Every August, John supplies The FruitGuys with rare, organic Gravenstein apples for
What do you get when a church organ builder and a fourth-generation farmer-turned-botanist marry each other? Well, in Parlier, California, you get D.E. Boldt—an organic stone fruit farm with the kind of high-tech fruit packing system that’s rare for a family operation. Meet the Farmers: Dorothy and David Boldt “If I have the green thumb, he has the greasy or
When you grab a bar from the basket of low-sugar snacks in your office break room, do you ever stop to wonder how it got into that wrapper? At YES Bar—a small business that makes healthy, nutty cookie bars for offices—machines didn’t always do the job. At one point, CEO Brennan Spreitzer and his business partner, Jeremy Cohen, got up
What sounds like a health food but tastes like dessert? In our humble opinion, it’s got to be nut butter-filled dates from realsy. They’re healthy office treats that are both super-sweet and nutrient-dense, with just a few ingredients. Though the snacks are simple, the story of how realsy got started (and partnered with The FruitGuys to deliver its snacks to
If you’ve ever enjoyed a fresh, juicy California peach in a delivery from The FruitGuys, you may have Blake Carlson to thank. Blake and his wife Lisa run Rocking Chair Farm Markets, a roughly 400-acre family farm in Kingsburg, California. They grow peaches, nectarines, plums, table grapes, almonds, walnuts, and persimmons—and they’ve helped stock The FruitGuys’ mixed fruit boxes for
When The FruitGuys called farmer Jeff Ferrari of Ferrari Farms to check in on his cherry crop, he was praying for dry weather. He told us that in the final days before picking, a drizzle can wreak havoc on an organic cherry farm. “The rain causes the cherries to crack,” Jeff explained. “This last weekend we did get some rain,
Early Bird Foods & Co. is a nearly 20-year-old company. Its granola is a favorite of Martha Stewart, scored a feature in The New York Times, and even helped inspire the house granola at the Michelin-starred restaurant Eleven Madison Park. But despite this success, the brand doesn’t have a bustling office and a big staff. Instead, Nekisia Davis (Nick-EE-sha) and
When The FruitGuys called farmer Vernon Peterson in late March to talk about organic apricots, he picked up the phone from the middle of his nectarine orchard. His smiling face filled up the video call’s screen, and behind him, we saw a sea of green. “These are our cover crops,” he said, gesturing proudly to what looked like long grasses
In some ways, Alex Duong’s cracker brand, Fair & Square, is a metaphor for his Asian American identity. He grew up eating Chinese food at big family potlucks, and those memories helped inspire his company’s gluten-free snacks for the office break room. His crackers are organic, dairy-free, and allergy-friendly—so almost everyone can enjoy them. But Alex is quick to admit
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