Upcycled Fruit, Bigger Flavor? Inside BranchOut’s Snack Mission

BranchOut Food is working to rethink dried fruit snacks through a technology designed to deliver more crunch, more flavor and less food waste.

At Sweets & Snacks Expo 2026, Seeing Green spoke with BranchOut about its upcycled fruit sourcing model in Peru, the company’s dehydration technology and why the brand believes dried fruit can become a more craveable, snackable experience while still preserving nutritional value.

The conversation also explores BranchOut’s work supporting small family farmers through the purchase of non-export-grade fruit, along with the company’s focus on reducing waste, improving efficiency and creating fruit snacks with significantly more retained flavor than traditional dried fruit products.

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