The promise

BEAR wants to take a big bite out of unhealthy snacking habits!
That is why all our BEAR snacks are made of simple, natural ingredients and are only gently and barely processed.
BEAR keeps it deliciously clean and fun! NULL

What makes BEAR unique?

BEAR makes tasty and fun snacks that only contain the goodness of fruit.
Just fruit and absolutely nothing else.
A unique combination that makes the healthier choice simpler for parents and more fun for kids. BEAR fruit snacks are available in different shapes, sizes and fruit flavors. Grrr...

No added sugar

Only naturally occurring sugars from fruit, never from concentrates.

Natural ingredients

Only delicious fruit.

Gently made

To preserve what nature provided. Source of fibre, vitamins & minerals.

How we make our products

We use natural ingredients that grow on trees and in fields and slowly dry them with great care. We never put sugar, concentrates or other nonsense additives in our products.
What you see is what you get. Grrr…

BEAR grunts when he thinks of other fruit snacks are made from highly concentrated fruit juices and thickeners that are cooked at high temperatures! Grrr…

Pick fruit and vegetables fresh in season. We use the whole fruit, not just the juice, and never concentrates.

Dried slowly at a low temperature to lock in all the natural goodness.

Hand cut and hand roll the dried fruit into Fruit Rolls.

Boil ingredients at 100 C° in a tank to create highly concentrated fruit juices/pastes stripped of fibre and essential vitamins.

They then add gumming agents and fillers to bulk up production yield and lower sugar claims. This additional process does not add any nutritional value.

Push the liquid syrup through an extrusion nozzle to be ‘shaped’ then cooled. The whole process lasts a few minutes.

The story of BEAR

It was in 2009 that the BEAR founder read an article about how bears had moved into cities to forage from behind junk food joints and bins. These 'city bears' were 30% fatter than their wild bear friends eating salmon and wild berries. They were also 30% less active and sadly all dead by the age of 10, whilst over 60% of the wild bears lived on healthily.

The story resonated with her, as she found that a lot of individuals and families were grrrowling about how hard it was to get fruit into their diets. Since, a promise was made to search the world for healthy snack alternatives to processed foods!
And so BEAR was born!