Nature’s Confectionery

The philosophy behind Schoonbee Landgoed’s Nature’s Confectionary range is simple: to provide healthy snack alternatives for anyone seeking to cut out processed sugars and preservatives. To achieve this, we use real fruit and limit how much we “interfere” with the sweet treats found in nature so that each product delivers on taste and eating experience.

Good for you, the community AND the environment

The fruity munchies Schoonbee Landgoed produces for the Nature’s Confectionary range are all 100% real fruit with nothing added. This means you can enjoy guilt-free snacks with no added sugar, no preservatives, no colourants, no flavourants and no allergens.

Expanding our operations to develop and produce new products has created additional job opportunities for our surrounding communities where unemployment is about 68%. In the words of Gert Upton, Executive Manager of Marketing and Sales, “people are the heartbeat of the Loskop Valley“.

Food waste is a pressing global issue and a significant problem in South Africa with millions of tons of food wasted each year. In producing our Nature’s Confectionary range, Schoonbee Landgoed takes another step in our journey towards Zero Food Waste by finding a purpose for fruits not suitable for retail even though on the inside they are perfectly suitable for consumption.  You can learn more about how we mitigate food waste in our Sustainable Solutions blog post.

Not your mama’s raisins

Schoonbee Landgoed launched the Nature’s Confectionery product range with our new jammy, flavourful Grape Chewies. Only the best locally grown, export quality table grape cultivars are selected to be transformed into fruity, gooey and deliciously chewy treats. Forget the small, hard, shriveled and dry raisins that you know. Grape Chewies are jammy and bursting with flavour.

Berries from the best of each season’s export quality red, white and black table grape cultivars are carefully selected to create three variants of our Grape Chewies – an exceptional treat from nature’s candy collection.

For your convenience, each 200g box contains 4 individually sealed portions of Grape Chewies for easy on-the-go snacking for the whole family.

Crisp dried citrus wheels

Our Naartjie Chips are crunchy and flavourful dried citrus slices made on the Schoonbee Landgoed farm from our locally grown, export quality mandarins. The fresh citrus is sliced and dehydrated with minimal processing and no Sulphur Dioxide is used.

This unique, crisp snack is a healthy alternative to the small, oily and salty chips full of preservatives that you know. Ideal for healthy hikers wanting a lightweight boost, little hands experiencing crunchy dried fruit for the first time, and hungry loved ones looking for snacks between meals, at the family braai or at a picnic with friends.

Freezing cool Fruit Crunchies

The latest exciting addition to our Nature’s Confectionary range is a fruity family of super crunchy real fruit snacks. At Schoonbee Landgoed, we love everything “fruit” and cherish the colours and flavours from nature. With innovative freeze-drying technology, it is possible for us to bring you bright and crunchy versions of your favourite fruits in treat-sized packs, bursting with flavoursome mouthfuls.