Just Fruit Bar: Raspberry

We make our Just Fruit Bars from 100% fruit grown in Oregon, Washington and California, where farmers grow some of the most delicious fruit in the U.S. Since the fruit does not travel far from orchard to bar, our bars retain more of the naturally delicious flavor from the fruit. Other brands buy the fruit for their bars from overseas but this decreases flavor and nutrition and gives you less control over your supply chain. Our bars are like a juicier, thicker version of fruit leather with none of the sponginess or stickiness of other bars and fruit strips.

Our Just Fruit Bars have 2g-4g of fiber and have only 80 calorie bar, so they won’t interfere with your meals. And, the high level of fiber helps to keep your blood sugar steady while you enjoy your treat. Our pear and blueberry flavors have a pear base, 4g of fiber, and they are low glycemic.  Our raspberry and cherry flavors are apple based and have 2g of fiber (pears have more fiber than apples). The pear-based bars are more firm in texture and the apple-based bars are softer.

• Our fruit bars are 100% just fruit. We do not use any artificial or added “natural” flavors, sweeteners or colors. Specific carbohydrate diet approved. Our ingredients are made with the whole fruit, including the skins, though you will not notice the skins in the bar.
• Vegan, Paleo, Low Glycemic, Top 12 Allergy Free Facility, No Soy, No Peanut, No Tree Nuts, No Sesame, No Dairy, No Egg, No Mustard, No Sea Creatures, No Wheat, No Gluten, No Sulfites, No Corn On Equipment, No Preservatives

The original Just Fruit Bars were a joint project of the USDA and pear and apple farming families in the Pacific Northwest under the name Gorge Delight almost 20 years ago. They wanted to create a product to use the “culled” fruit in conventional orchards. At the time, up to 50% of conventional orchard harvests were wasted because they were considered too ugly or small or misshapen to sell as whole fruit. Working with the USDA, the farmers created the first fruit bar and sent them out in MREs to the military in bases all over the world. And, though the USDA is no longer involved in the production, those original farming families are part owners of ZEGO.

Enjoy as a calorie-limited fruit snack any time of day–whether on-the-go or as a pick-me-up between classes or work meetings. Nut free and safe to bring to schools. A favorite of cyclists, these bars are great for fueling or recovering from a workout. Cut into squares to use as a delightful addition to a cheese and fruit platter. Use small cookie cutters to make fun shapes and “decorate” a nut or seed butter open-faced sandwich. Or, put cut squares onto sticks and dip into melted chocolate for an engaging  dessert or party treat.

• Why do we test for agricultural chemicals in our Just Fruit Bars? Our fruit bars are made from conventional fruit as part of a sustainability effort to use culled fruit. Most of our fruit is grown in the Pacific Northwest where farmers typically use fewer chemicals on their crops. But, they do use some, and there is possible drift from surrounding fields and waterways. So we test our ingredients after each harvest for over 400 chemicals. We typically detect small levels of a handful of agricultural chemicals but the levels are very low. If we find a spike in a particular chemical, like we did with raspberries one year, we switch to organic for that ingredient for the season. Seasonal changes to organic are not reflected on our packaging. We also test for glyphosate, and to date, all tests have shown no measurable amounts of that chemical.
• We believe it is important to offer better conventional products in the marketplace. Organic certification is expensive for farmers and for many it is unattainable due to finance and other concerns. Only 4% of farmland in the U.S. is certified organic. Yet, many conventional farmers work hard to reduce their use of commercial pesticides and rely more on regenerative farming practices. If brands start buying ingredients based on how clean they are, not just the 0-1 structure of organic certification, farmers will be compensated for making steps toward cleaner growing and more farmers will be encouraged and able to grow cleaner crops. Organic certification is valuable and important, but we also need to expand our compensation system for food so it rewards farmers for making changes that result in better, cleaner food for us, their workers, and our planet, even if they are not certified organic.
• Scan the QR code on any package to see the purity test results for your bar and the list of the 400 chemicals we test for or see the results in our Food Safety section on our website.
• See Test Results for Just Fruit Bars.

Made in a Top 12 Allergy Free Facility, No Soy, No Peanut, No Tree Nuts, No Sesame, No Dairy, No Egg, No Mustard, No Sea Creatures, No Wheat, No Gluten, No Sulfites, No Corn On Equipment, No Preservatives