{"id":70607,"date":"2024-02-07T08:59:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/?p=70607"},"modified":"2024-07-19T10:16:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:16:56","slug":"making-climate-candy-from-upcycled-fruits-and-veggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/making-climate-candy-from-upcycled-fruits-and-veggies\/","title":{"rendered":"Making ‘Climate Candy’ From Upcycled Fruits and Veggies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amy Keller, CEO of Climate Candy<\/a>, makes Faves fruit chews out of “perfectly imperfect” fruits and vegetables. The goal is to reduce food waste<\/a>. About 40% of food is wasted<\/a> globally, often winding up in landfills, where it rots and produces methane, a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. As part of the Spangler family, which makes Dum Dum lollipops, Keller realized a few years back that she could use her background in candy to make a difference. “Candy is a $10 billion industry,” she says. Using industrial machinery and equipment, she makes fruit chews at a mass scale. Climate Candy estimates that it rescues over 1 million fruits and vegetables a year.<\/p>\n\n\n

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PIX:\tFood pouring off truck. Farmers harvesting, landfills, etc.<\/p>\n

Amy: \tThe number one issue around fighting climate change is food waste. 40% of food is wasted globally. Some of it's ending up in piggeries, livestock, landfill; places that it's not helping from a human health standpoint, or the environment.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tNassau County Candy Fair, Long Island<\/p>\n

L\/T:\tAmy Keller - CEO, Faves<\/p>\n

PIX:\tAmy walking into the fair and chatting to visitors at her booth.<\/p>\n

Amy:\tHello, sir. How are you? This is Faves, my climate candy, and it's made of imperfectly perfect fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n

PIX:\tFaves candy animation.<\/p>\n

Amy:\tIt tastes like strawberry and cherry starbursts. Faves, our fruit chew candy made out of upcycled fruits and vegetables. You get your servings of fruits and vegetables through something as easy and accessible and affordable like candy. And you don\u2019t realize that you're doing something good for the planet.<\/p>\n

TITLE:\tClimate Candy <\/p>\n

Amy:\tMy family is Spangler candy company, and we make two billion Dum Dum lollipops every year, along with many other nostalgia candies. I used to make my own hybrid Dum Dum flavors. I would put one in each cheek, so I used to like putting lemon in one and lime in the other. <\/p>\n

PIX:\tDC capitol. <\/p>\n

TEXT:\tAs a student, Amy: spent summers working on congressional campaigns in Washington, DC. <\/p>\n

PIX:\tMontage of hurricanes, fires, tornadoes....<\/p>\n

Amy:\tWithin all the issues of the day, climate change, that became something that I really cared about.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tAmy realized she could use her background in candy to make a difference.<\/p>\n

Amy:\tCandy is a $10 billion industry yearly in just the US. So you can make a big change. I knew you can't start a candy factory out of a garage, because you can't do anything small in the candy world. If we're going to make a real change in the world and we're going to get the bigger contracts, it's gotta be something where I can make millions at a time and hundreds of thousands of packs. <\/p>\n

TEXT:\tAt first she tried to source surplus produce directly from farmers. <\/p>\n

Amy:\tAcross the board, farms are all the same. They're all having high wastage. It's literally just the dimensions of the fruits and vegetables that don't work with grocery stores.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tFood has to look perfect or grocery stores won\u2019t take them.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tFood waste makes up to 8% of global greenhouse emissions. <\/p>\n

Amy:\tWe wanted to work with farmers in specific areas, so our transportation footprint would be lighter because we didn't wanna be trucking things across the country. It's called climate candy. <\/p>\n

PIX:\tPacking truck with melons.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tAmy soon discovered that fresh vegetables were too perishable to work with at scale.<\/p>\n

Amy:\tIt needed to get to a point of becoming something that had higher shelf life. <\/p>\n

PIX:\tAmy visiting candy factory.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tNew Jersey<\/p>\n

Amy:\tAll right, I think we\u2019re ready to go. We\u2019ll see. Blueberry, raspberry, cherry, what are we doing today?<\/p>\n

Joe:\tCherry strawberry today.<\/p>\n

Amy:\tCherry strawberry. The classic. Perfect.<\/p>\n

PIX:\tAmy and Joe on platform high up over the factory floor<\/p>\n

Joe:\tThe machinery is right underneath, and we have enough of a workspace here that we can do what needs to be done, combining flavors or just metering it.<\/p>\n

Amy:\tAmazing.<\/p>\n

Amy:\tThat's when we came in and said, why can't it be an ingredient and making it into puree or powders? <\/p>\n

PIX:\tAmy and packer walking through the plant.<\/p>\n

Joe:\tI love this when you can see the powder going in.<\/p>\n

Amy:\tIt\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tThe basic powder is made from root vegetables.<\/p>\n

Amy:\tAfter it becomes a powder, a puree, a juice, we make it into Faves.<\/p>\n

PIX:\tBack at Candy Fair with man in blue maple leaf shirt again.<\/p>\n

Amy: \tHere, try one. It tastes like peach and mango, but it\u2019s carrots and beets and squash and sweet potato and pumpkin. So you\u2019re eating your vegetables right now.<\/p>\n

Amy:\tWe consider Fave as a candy because it has that sweetness that offsets your sweet tooth and we advertise it in that way. We're trying to say, look, you have to eat 5-8 servings of fruits and vegetables daily. And for them to recognize that there's a way for them to do it in a fun way.<\/p>\n

PIX:\tAt Candy Fair. Woman tries candy.<\/p>\n

Amy:\tTry one. Just try it, try it! See what you think.<\/p>\n

Amy:\tWe\u2019ve learned over the years that people love the fact that they're rescuing fruits and vegetables<\/p>\n

Woman:\tReally good. it\u2019s not too sticky. <\/p>\n

TEXT:\tClimate Candy has rescued over one million fruits and vegetables a year.<\/p>\n

Amy:\tIf something that you build has synergies with your mission, your vision, your values as a person, it makes it very easy to wake up in the morning and say, I'm making that change, and I know that the world will be better off if I succeed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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