An Exciting New Way to Eat Fruit
A fruit-based frozen experience for students, brought to schools.
The idea
Fruit. Reimagined.
Fruiticana starts with fruit, then creates a cold, smooth frozen experience students already understand as a treat. It was originally introduced as Cream-Less Ice Crème.
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Real Fruit
Flavors begin with fruit students already know.
2
Fruiticana
Fruit becomes a creamless frozen treat.
3
Cold, Smooth, Frozen Experience
The feel of a frozen dessert, built around fruit.
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Something Students Can Get Excited About
Another way to enjoy fruit — one that feels like a treat.
Flavors
Find your fruit.
These are original documented Fruiticana flavors, not a confirmed menu for today. A participating school would offer four at a time. Which four still needs to be confirmed.
Original flavorStrawberry
Bright, ripe strawberry - a timeless favorite.
Explore Strawberry
Original flavorMango
Ripe, juicy mango with a velvety finish.
Explore Mango
Original flavorBlueberry
Plump blueberries, cool and mellow.
Explore Blueberry
Original flavorOrange
Juicy orange, sweet and sunny.
Explore Orange
Original flavorPineapple
Sun-ripe pineapple with a lively snap.
Explore Pineapple
Original flavorCantaloupe
Ripe cantaloupe, mellow and juicy.
Explore Cantaloupe
Why Fruiticana
What if kids wanted the fruit?
Instead of only telling children they should eat fruit, Fruiticana asks how the experience can be exciting enough that they may actually want it.
What if fruit could become something students look forward to?
That question is why Fruiticana was created. This is our vision, not a guaranteed change in what students choose.
Start young
Foods we meet young can stay with us.
Some foods stay with us because we first learned to enjoy them as children. Fruiticana’s vision is to introduce a positive experience with fruit during childhood that may continue as students grow.
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.
Made for schools
Bring Fruiticana to your students.
Under the proposed model, Fruiticana brings the equipment and stays with the school. This is not a claim that Fruiticana is on menus today.
Figures and steps below describe Fruiticana’s proposed standard school setup. They are not a claim that Fruiticana is on school menus today.
- Machines per participating school
- 2
- Proposed standard setup
- Fruiticana flavor options
- 4
- Two flavors in each machine
Fruiticana provides the machines
Under the proposed model, Fruiticana supplies the serving equipment. The school does not purchase the machines.
Fruiticana maintains the equipment
Fruiticana remains involved after installation: maintaining and servicing the machinery so the program can keep functioning.
Fruiticana stays involved in serving
This is a hands-on partnership. Fruiticana does not simply drop off equipment and leave cafeteria staff responsible for everything.
Fruiticana provides and maintains the equipment and stays involved in operating the program.
How it works
How it works
Fruiticana provides the machines, stays involved, and gives students an exciting new way to eat fruit.
Figures and steps below describe Fruiticana’s proposed standard school setup. They are not a claim that Fruiticana is on school menus today.
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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.
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Students Enjoy Fruiticana
Students have access to an exciting new way to eat fruit — a frozen fruit experience they can look forward to.
Product transparency
Know what's in the cup.
Schools can review ingredients, nutrition, servings, and flavors. The panels and ingredient list are historical records and still need current testing.
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
Let's Bring Fruiticana to Your Students.
Give students an exciting new way to experience fruit, and learn how the proposed Fruiticana school program could work at your school.