An Exciting New Way to Eat Fruit
Fruiticana brings a fruit-based frozen experience directly to schools — giving students something they can enjoy while giving schools a hands-on program designed around their students.
Originally introduced as Fruiticana Creamless Ice Cream — smooth like ice cream, built from real fruit.
Why we care
Fruit Should Be Something Students Look Forward To
Fruiticana exists for kids — for health, for fruit, and for enjoyment. We want to introduce positive food experiences while children are young, so fruit can become something students actually look forward to.
What if fruit could become something students actually look forward to?
That question is why Fruiticana was created: to give students an exciting new way to eat fruit. This is our vision, not a scientific promise.
What's Fruiticana?
A fruit-based frozen treat for students
Fruiticana takes the cold, smooth experience students already enjoy and builds it around fruit — not dairy ice cream with fruit mixed in.
12
Fruit based
Original flavors built from fruit, not a dairy ice-cream base.
Smooth
Ice-cream feel
A creamless frozen treat with a scoop students recognize.
2003
Lactose-free concept
Designed for people avoiding lactose. Current recipe still to confirm.
Kids
Made for students
Created so students can get excited about eating fruit.
Why start young
Give Students an Enjoyable Experience With Fruit Today
Many people continue enjoying foods they first became familiar with as children. Fruiticana wants to create a positive relationship with fruit early.
Give students an enjoyable experience with fruit today, with the hope that their appreciation for fruit continues tomorrow.
Why bring Fruiticana into schools?
Children spend a significant part of their day at school. Instead of waiting for families to discover Fruiticana somewhere else, the vision is to introduce the experience directly within schools — a place where students can discover another way to enjoy fruit. Schools are not merely a distribution channel. They are where students already are.
How it works
How Fruiticana Works at Your School
Fruiticana provides the machines, stays involved, and gives students an exciting new way to eat fruit. The participating school shares in the program’s sales.
Figures and steps below describe Fruiticana’s proposed standard school setup. They are not a claim that Fruiticana is on school menus today.
Fruiticana provides and maintains the equipment and stays involved in operating the program.
- Machines per participating school
- 2
- Proposed standard setup
- Fruiticana flavor options
- 4
- Two flavors in each machine
- Of Fruiticana sales to the school
- 1/3
- From sales generated through its program
- 01
We Provide the Machines
Fruiticana supplies the serving equipment. Under the proposed model, the school does not purchase the machines.
- 02
We Bring the Flavors
Two machines with two flavors per machine under the proposed standard setup — four fruit flavor choices for students.
- 03
We Stay Involved
Fruiticana maintains the equipment and remains involved in operation and serving. We’re not simply dropping off equipment and leaving.
- 04
Students Enjoy Fruiticana
Students have access to an exciting new way to eat fruit — a frozen fruit experience they can look forward to.
- 05
Your School Shares in Sales
The participating school receives one-third (1/3) of Fruiticana sales generated through its school program.
We've Been in Connecticut Schools Before
Research and development began around 2003. Company documentation reports that about 30,000 consumers sampled the idea. Fruiticana then participated in the Connecticut Team Nutrition Healthy Snack pilot and was later supplied to participating local Connecticut schools.
This is historical participation. It is not a current state, USDA, or school-district endorsement.
Today the original idea is being brought back so students can have an exciting new way to eat fruit — through a proposed school partnership built around equipment Fruiticana provides and stays involved with.
1. 2003
Research and development
Work begins on a frozen dessert built around fruit.
2. Sampling
Connecticut consumer sampling
Product trial sampling in the Connecticut area.
3. 2003–05
Team Nutrition Healthy Snack Pilot
Historical participation in Connecticut’s school snack pilot.
4. 2005–06
Local school distribution
Fruiticana supplied to participating Connecticut schools.
5. Today
The original idea, renewed
A renewed focus on students, enjoyable fruit, and a proposed school partnership.
- Team Nutrition pilot
- 2003–05
- USDA-funded grant to CT SDE
- Local school production
- 2005–06
- After consumer testing
- Consumers sampled
- ~30,000
- Connecticut school sampling figure
- Original flavors
- 12
- Fruit lineup from the record
Research Fruiticana
Learn Everything About Fruiticana.
A principal or administrator should not have to schedule a meeting just to understand the basics. Review Fruiticana’s story, product, nutrition, school program, and historical documentation here.
Our Story
Who Fruiticana is and why it exists.
Product Information
What Fruiticana is, flavors, and servings.
Nutrition
2008 Nutrition Facts panels for school review.
Ingredients
The 2007 documented ingredient list.
School Program
How the proposed school model works.
Historical Connecticut Program
The 2003–2005 Team Nutrition chapter.
Documentation
Letters and records for independent review.
FAQs
Answers for principals and food-service teams.
Contact Information
Request school information to start a conversation.
Let's Give Students a New Way to Enjoy Fruit.
Request school information to talk through the idea, the proposed school program, nutrition documentation, and how a conversation with your school could start.