25 February 2015
The World’s LOUDEST Apple
SweeTango® apples are the hottest apple in the world right now and it’s all about texture! SweeTango® have cells that
are twicethe size of normal apples which gives them their legendary crunch and makes them amazing to eat. It’s also the
reason why they’ve been scientifically proven to be the loudest apple in the world!
Bred by the University of Minnesota, who are known for developing unique varieties, SweeTango® has a flavour that is
rich and intense at a time when many apples are becoming bland.
SweeTango® apples are ready in late January, before any other fresh commercial apple varieties are available. And
because The Yummy Fruit Company are the only company growing them outside of the United States it means we get to enjoy
them first each season!
Launching a new apple, even one as good as the SweeTango®, into the market is a major undertaking as Paul Paynter from
The Yummy Fruit Company explained.
“Launching new varieties is a chicken and egg situation. Unless you have lots of apples you can’t really launch and you
don’t want to plant and grow lots of apples until they know the demand is out there…unless you’re us.‘’
“We think the SweeTango® is a great apple. It’s early so it gives people fresh apples when there isn’t much else around
and the light crunchy texture fits well with the summer season. We’ve committed to plant 150,000 trees by 2015. That
shows just how good we think this apple is.”
And while 150,000 is a huge commitment Paul and the team at The Yummy Fruit Company team are passionate about getting
Kiwis to eat more fresh locally grown fruit and SweeTango® is an important part of this.
“Our job at Yummy is to make people want to eat fruit. You can tell them all day long about how good it is for them, but
that’s such a boring message. So we figure we should just make the experience AMAZING and then the getting them to eat
it bit will take care of itself. The junk food aisle is full of cool packaging and sharp looking products so it’s
competitive and they can turn around a new product in a couple of months. For us it takes can take a decade to find a
new apple, plant the trees and bring them into production – and that is the super fast track. For us SweeTango®
represents a huge opportunity and we are incredibly excited about it.”
SweeTango® apples are available at New World, Pak ‘n’ Save, Nosh and at all good fruit retailers between January and
April (subject to availability).
ENDS