Tropical Foods, a food manufacturer that specializes in raw and roasted nuts, dried fruit and snack mixes, has re-introduced its ganic Acres product line with new corn-based packaging.
Organic Acres contains five organic mixes. The line also contains dried fruits, and both raw and roasted/salted nuts. Products are available in bulk or a new corn-based retail package.
York’s Harvest, Organic Acres contains almonds, both raw and roasted/salted, cashews roasted and salted, diced pineapple and walnuts. The organic mixes consist of antioxidant mix, fruitberry basket, fancy mixed nuts, berry-ific and just nutty.
The company claims that its new packaging material will break down under certain conditions into harmless natural compounds, which could take pressure off the mounting landfills, since plastics already take up 25% of dumps by volume.
Chad Hartman, brand manager for Tropical Foods, said: “We are using corn-based containers as a way to serve our custom mixes in a more environmentally appealing manner. It has a smaller packaging footprint.”
Tropical Foods has a line of retail branded products, including Grabeez®, Buffalo Nuts® and Christille Bay.