{"id":15668,"date":"2015-05-27T10:17:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T15:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=15668"},"modified":"2015-05-27T10:19:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T15:19:45","slug":"dutch-company-popularizes-veggies-with-snack-packs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/dutch-company-popularizes-veggies-with-snack-packs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch company popularizes veggies with snack packs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Meghan Morris<\/p>\n<p>Getting kids to eat vegetables is tough \u2013 even if they\u2019re royalty.<\/p>\n<p>The king of the Netherlands said in an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/dutch-king-talks-return-to-chicago\/\">interview<\/a>\u00a0in the Hague\u00a0last week that he and his wife fight a continuous\u00a0battle against sugar consumption\u00a0by their three daughters, ages 11, 9 and 8. But the princesses will eat Tommies, a Dutch\u00a0brand of vegetables packaged in portable containers that\u2019s exploded in popularity during the last decade.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Aimed at children but now popular with adults, the on-the-go snacks launched in 2005 with plastic cups filled with cherry tomatoes. Parent company Greenco, a marketer of Dutch tomatoes,\u00a0has since expanded into other vegetables such as snack cucumbers to fill a market niche that didn\u2019t exist before the manufacturer put cartoon figures on the front of tomato packaging.<\/p>\n<p>Greenco\u00a0owner\u00a0Jos van Mil said the company capitalized on shifting eating habits. Like Americans, the Dutch have started snacking more in the last few decades, rather than eating three meals a day \u2013 and fatty snacks are starting to impact the country\u2019s collective waistline.<\/p>\n<p>Children are particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3216980\/\">vulnerable<\/a> to the food industry\u2019s marketing techniques familiar to any parent, from the friendly face of Ronald McDonald to branded supermarket foods. Van Mil said he applied the marketing concepts of cartoon characters and child-sized food to vegetables. Now, a clown with a cherry tomato nose stretches his arms out on plastic cups and bags filled with a more nutritious snack, which the company markets\u00a0like sweet candy rather than an unpleasant vegetable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kids are our customer for the future,\u201d van Mil said in a presentation to American journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Below are scenes from the press presentation that demonstrate how Greenco found an untapped market for these snacks. This behind-the-scenes look at <a href=\"http:\/\/tomatoworld.nl\/nl\/onze-partners\/partners\/greenco\/\">TomatoWorld,<\/a> a multi-grower collaboration initiated by Greenco,\u00a0also explains some of the Dutch innovation that allows pesticide-free production in greenhouses across the country. (Click on\u00a0each photo.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpmf-gallerys wpmf-gallerys-life\"><div id=\"gallery-1\" class=\"gallery gallery_life wpmf_gallery_default gallery_default none gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail gallery-link-post wpmf-has-border-radius-0 wpmf-gutterwidth-5 no_ratio\"><figure class=\"wpmf-gallery-item\" data-index=\"0\"><div class=\"wpmf-gallery-icon\"><div class=\"square_thumbnail\"><div class=\"img_centered\"><a class=\" not_video noLightbox\" data-lightbox=\"0\" data-href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0281.jpg\" title=\"Annemiek van Marrewijk\" target=\"_self\" data-index=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpmf_img\" alt=\"Annemiek van Marrewijk\" src=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0281-150x150.jpg\" data-type=\"wpmfgalleryimg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0281-150x150.jpg\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\">Tomatoes come in dozens of shapes and sizes, but few people would choose a brown-colored tomato over a red variety. The company hosts school tours in its greenhouse to help children understand healthy eating, and promotes consumer education through mix-and-match tomato stands in grocery stores that allow customers to pick out different types of tomatoes.<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class=\"wpmf-gallery-item\" data-index=\"1\"><div class=\"wpmf-gallery-icon\"><div class=\"square_thumbnail\"><div class=\"img_centered\"><a class=\" not_video noLightbox\" data-lightbox=\"0\" data-href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0297.jpg\" title=\"Jos van Mil\" target=\"_self\" data-index=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpmf_img\" alt=\"Jos van Mil\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0297-150x150.jpg\" data-type=\"wpmfgalleryimg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0297-150x150.jpg\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\">Multiple companies started selling tomatoes and other vegetables in plastic bags similar to the first version of Tommies on the market. To stay competitive, Greenco introduced several more types of packing for the same brand, with cup containers, a family-sized bucket and a seven-tomato carrying case for kids\u2019 lunches \u2013 or commuters\u2019 pockets. <\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class=\"wpmf-gallery-item\" data-index=\"2\"><div class=\"wpmf-gallery-icon\"><div class=\"square_thumbnail\"><div class=\"img_centered\"><a class=\" not_video noLightbox\" data-lightbox=\"0\" data-href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0374.jpg\" title=\"Soil\" target=\"_self\" data-index=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpmf_img\" alt=\"Soil\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0374-150x150.jpg\" data-type=\"wpmfgalleryimg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0374-150x150.jpg\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\">Tomatoes\u2019 taste comes in part from the seed, but fertilizer influences the majority of the flavor. By marketing Tommies as a sweet candy, Greenco highlighted flavor, rather than the nutritional value unlikely to sway a preschool customer.<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class=\"wpmf-gallery-item\" data-index=\"3\"><div class=\"wpmf-gallery-icon\"><div class=\"square_thumbnail\"><div class=\"img_centered\"><a class=\" not_video noLightbox\" data-lightbox=\"0\" data-href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0391.jpg\" title=\"Tomato plant\" target=\"_self\" data-index=\"3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpmf_img\" alt=\"Tomato plant\" src=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0391-150x150.jpg\" data-type=\"wpmfgalleryimg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0391-150x150.jpg\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\">In one week, Greenco produces 30 million pieces of fruit across its four production facilities. The products are sold in markets as varied as the Netherlands and Hong Kong.<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class=\"wpmf-gallery-item\" data-index=\"4\"><div class=\"wpmf-gallery-icon\"><div class=\"square_thumbnail\"><div class=\"img_centered\"><a class=\" not_video noLightbox\" data-lightbox=\"0\" data-href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0408.jpg\" title=\"Bees\" target=\"_self\" data-index=\"4\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpmf_img\" alt=\"Bees\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0408-150x150.jpg\" data-type=\"wpmfgalleryimg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0408-150x150.jpg\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\">Even though the Dutch rely on automation in much of the horticulture industry, Mother Nature is still the best solution for parts of the business. Bees pollinate the plants, and Greenco brings in insects that prey on other bugs harmful to fruit, a healthy change from decades ago, when growers would spray the whole greenhouse with pesticides. <\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class=\"wpmf-gallery-item\" data-index=\"5\"><div class=\"wpmf-gallery-icon\"><div class=\"square_thumbnail\"><div class=\"img_centered\"><a class=\" not_video noLightbox\" data-lightbox=\"0\" data-href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0420.jpg\" title=\"Hanging tomatoes\" target=\"_self\" data-index=\"5\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpmf_img\" alt=\"Hanging tomatoes\" src=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0420-150x150.jpg\" data-type=\"wpmfgalleryimg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/DSC_0420-150x150.jpg\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\">The Dutch marry technological innovation with decades of expertise to produce shiny fruit. Van Mil, for example, said he grew up playing in greenhouses as a child. \u201cSometimes you have money but no green fingers,\u201d he said, and businesses without a green thumb tend to fail, even with the best technology.<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class=\"wpmf-gallery-item\" data-index=\"6\"><div class=\"wpmf-gallery-icon\"><div class=\"square_thumbnail\"><div class=\"img_centered\"><a class=\" not_video noLightbox\" data-lightbox=\"0\" data-href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/IMG_0779.jpg\" title=\"Yellow tomato soup\" target=\"_self\" data-index=\"6\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpmf_img\" alt=\"Yellow tomato soup\" src=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/IMG_0779-150x150.jpg\" data-type=\"wpmfgalleryimg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/IMG_0779-150x150.jpg\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\">Innovation isn\u2019t relegated to snack packaging. When Russia banned European fruit and vegetable imports in 2014, for example, Greenco had tons of extra yellow tomatoes without a destination. The company turned the fruit into yellow tomato soup \u2013 a real-life application in making proverbial lemonade out of lemons.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Selling vegetables\u00a0like candy has been beneficial for the company\u2019s bottom line as well as for customers\u2019 waistlines. Greenco has expanded to production facilities in three more countries. In North America, the company grows fruit in Mexico and sells shakers on the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p><em>Meghan Morris reported from the Netherlands as part of a Dutch embassy-sponsored trip for journalists.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: These tomatoes are just two of the 30 million pieces of fruit Greenco produces weekly in its four production facilities. 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