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Abu Dhabi · Small batch

Goodness,
dried in the sun.

Fruit is already sweet. We take the water out and leave everything else alone — no sugar, no sulphites, no oil. One ingredient on the back of every pouch.

Shop the fruit How we dry it
No added sugarNo sulphitesDried in Abu DhabiOne ingredient
Sunlit dried citrus wheels laid out edge to edgeDried this week
One ingredient

The promise

What we will not do

No added sugar

Not glucose, not cane, not “fruit juice concentrate”. The sweetness is the fruit’s own.

No sulphur dioxide

The preservative that keeps supermarket apricots orange. It also sets off asthma. We skip it, so our colour is honest.

No oil, no frying

Banana chips are usually fried. Ours are dried. It is a difference you can taste and a difference you can measure.

Nothing arrives dried

We buy the fruit fresh here and dry it here. Nobody dried it a year ago in another country.

The range

The fruit

Dried this week in Abu Dhabi, in resealable pouches.

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Mango — A bowl of dried mango stripsSweet

Mango

Thick-cut, honeyed, chewy

900g of fresh fruit becomes 150g

AED52150g
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Pineapple — A pile of dried pineapple ringsTangy

Pineapple

Bright, sharp, almost sherbet

1.05kg of fresh fruit becomes 150g

AED44150g
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Apple — Thin dried apple ringsCrunchy

Apple

Paper-thin rings. Snap, not chew

800g of fresh fruit becomes 100g

AED34100g
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Kiwi — Dried kiwi slices arranged in a gridTangy

Kiwi

Tart, green, faintly floral

700g of fresh fruit becomes 100g

AED46100g
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Strawberry — Whole dried strawberriesSweet

Strawberry

Whole berries. A kilo fresh makes 60g

660g of fresh fruit becomes 60g

AED5860g
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Orange Wheels — A stack of dried orange wheelsTangy

Orange Wheels

Peel and all. Bitter-sweet

480g of fresh fruit becomes 80g

AED3880g
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Banana — Pale dried banana coinsCrunchy

Banana

Dried, never fried. No oil

480g of fresh fruit becomes 120g

AED32120g
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The Sun Box — A bowl of assorted dried fruitEverythingBest value

The Sun Box

All seven fruits, 35g of each

1.8kg of fresh fruit becomes 245g

AED159245g
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Pick any three.

Choose three pouches and we deliver them on the first working day of every month, 15% off the single price. Skip a month or stop whenever — one message on WhatsApp.

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    A road cyclist on an empty road at sunriseA hand holding a slice of dried orange

    Why we make it

    Energy that is actually food

    Half past five in the morning is when Abu Dhabi belongs to cyclists. It is not discipline, it is arithmetic — for half the year it is the only hour when riding ninety kilometres is a reasonable idea.

    Three hours in, you have to eat. The choice is a sachet of engineered syrup that works beautifully for the first two and turns your stomach against you by the fourth — or a supermarket bag of dried mango, dusted with sugar it never needed and gassed with sulphur dioxide to keep it orange.

    The same choice turns up at four in the afternoon, nowhere near a bicycle. The meeting ran long, the school run is in twenty minutes, and what is within reach is a chocolate bar, or a granola bar with fourteen ingredients and more sugar than the chocolate.

    Endurance athletes and people with no time want the same thing and rarely get it: energy that is actually food. Not a formulation. Not fruit that has been improved. Fruit.

    So: mango, banana and orange. Cut at four millimetres and dried for fourteen hours at fifty-seven degrees — low enough that nothing cooks, long enough that nothing survives. Roughly forty grams of carbohydrate in a serving, about what a gel gives you, with one word on the ingredients list. Tested where it counts: on long rides through an Abu Dhabi summer, and in a bag on an ordinary Tuesday.

    خير is the word for the good you wish on someone. It seemed right for something you hand across at the top of a climb, or keep in a desk drawer.

    Dried and packed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

    How we dry

    Four steps, fourteen hours

    01

    Chosen

    Whole fruit from Mina Zayed, ripe enough to be sweet on its own. Never concentrate, never offcuts.

    02

    Sliced

    By hand, to an even four millimetres. Uneven slices dry unevenly, and unevenly dried fruit spoils.

    03

    Dried

    Fourteen hours at 57°C. Low enough that nothing cooks. Long enough that nothing survives.

    04

    Sealed

    Into a resealable food-grade pouch within the hour, while it is still warm from the tray.

    Hands slicing fresh fruit for dryingFruit being sliced thin on a wooden board

    We dry to order, in small batches. Nothing sits in a warehouse waiting for you to want it.

    Delivery

    Everywhere in the emirate

    We deliver across Abu Dhabi and nowhere else — that is rather the point. Order before 4pm and it goes out on the next run.

    Spend AED 150 or more in Abu Dhabi City and delivery is on us.

    Select an area…

    Questions

    The things people ask

    How does this compare to an energy gel?

    A 50g pack carries roughly 40g of carbohydrate — about a gel and a half. A Maurten gel is AED 15–19 for 40g and 25g of carbohydrate, so per gram of carbohydrate we are line-ball with it. The differences: ours is fruit rather than maltodextrin and fructose syrup, it needs no water to get down, and most people can still eat it at hour four. It absorbs more slowly than a gel, so it suits steady endurance work better than a sprint finish. Use both — that is what we do.

    Does it give me anything a gel does not?

    Yes, and it is the honest reason to eat fruit instead. A gel is built to deliver carbohydrate and nothing else — Maurten's own list is water, glucose, fructose, sodium alginate, gluconic acid and calcium carbonate. Drying fruit removes water and nothing else, so the potassium, magnesium, vitamin C and fibre stay where they were. We are not printing amounts until we have a lab analysis to stand behind, and we will publish it when we do.

    Can I use it instead of my electrolyte drink?

    No. What you sweat out is mostly sodium, and fruit contains very little of it. Fruit covers carbohydrate and the potassium and magnesium that come with it — it does not cover salt. On anything long or hot in Abu Dhabi, keep taking electrolytes from wherever you take them now.

    Is there really nothing added?

    Nothing. No sugar, no glucose syrup, no sulphur dioxide, no oil, no natural flavouring, no preservative. Every pouch lists one ingredient, and it is the fruit named on the front. If that ever changes, we will say so here first.

    Why does your fruit look darker than the supermarket kind?

    Because it has not been treated with sulphur dioxide. SO₂ is what keeps commercial apricots orange and commercial mango neon. It is legal and it is common, and it is also the most frequent trigger for the wheezing and headaches some people get from dried fruit. Ours browns the way a cut apple browns. That is the fruit, not a fault.

    How long does it keep?

    Nine months sealed, kept out of direct sun. Once opened, press the air out and reseal — three to four weeks at room temperature, longer in the fridge. There is no preservative doing that work, so the pouch matters.

    Is it halal?

    Yes. There is nothing in it but fruit, and nothing touches it but stainless steel and a drying tray. No alcohol is used at any stage, including cleaning.

    Is this suitable for diabetics?

    Dried fruit is concentrated fruit — taking the water out concentrates the natural sugar along with the fibre. We add none, but a 30g portion still carries the sugar of the whole fresh fruit. Please treat it as fruit rather than as a sugar-free product, and speak to your doctor.

    How do I pay?

    Build your basket here, send it to us on WhatsApp in one tap, and we reply with the total and a delivery slot. Payment is on delivery, by card or cash. Card checkout on the site is coming.

    Do you deliver outside Abu Dhabi?

    Not yet. We deliver across the whole emirate — Abu Dhabi City, Al Ain and Al Dhafra — and nowhere else for now. Dubai is the next step.

    Can I order for an office or an event?

    Yes. For anything above five kilos or twenty boxes, message us on WhatsApp and we will quote you directly. We do unbranded and co-branded boxes for corporate gifting.