It Started with a Strawberry
It was a quiet Tuesday in 2019 when I bit into my first freeze-dried strawberry and felt immediately changed. Not dramatically — but quietly, deeply. It tasted like the idea of a strawberry, concentrated into something both familiar and entirely new.
I was a mom trying to find healthy snacks my kids would actually eat without a fight. We'd battled gummy bears, processed crackers, and enough "fruit snacks" that contained zero actual fruit. I wanted something real. Something clean. Something joyful.
"If I wouldn't put it in my children's lunch box without reading the label twice, it doesn't go into a Tiny Yumzies bag. Ever."
Built in Our Kitchen, Scaled with Integrity
What started as a weekend hobby became a small farmers' market booth, then a cottage food operation, and finally — after two years of perfecting the process — a fully certified facility that still maintains everything we valued from day one.
We source directly from farms we trust. We visit. We ask questions. We learn their stories. Because the story of your snack starts long before our freeze dryer ever turns on.
The Science of Simple
Freeze-drying removes moisture through sublimation — our fruit goes from frozen to vapor without ever becoming liquid. The result preserves up to 97% of the vitamins, minerals, and natural enzymes that fresh fruit contains, while delivering a shelf life measured in years, not days.
No heat damage. No chemical preservation. No nutrition lost. Just fruit, perfected by physics.
Family in Every Bag
Today, Tiny Yumzies is still a family operation — my husband manages our farm partnerships, my daughter designs the packaging, and my son is our official taste-tester (a title he takes very seriously). We've grown, but we've never grown out of our why.
Every product we make is one we're proud to serve at our own table. We hope it finds a place at yours.
— The Yumzies Family