Stonyfield, an organic yogurt maker, is launching an organic frozen yogurt dessert in collaboration with Cambridge, MA-based WikiFoods, Inc. What makes Frozen Yogurt Pearls so different? It’s made up of scoops of frozen yogurt enveloped in all natural, edible skins—like the skin of a grape. And it was developed to be handheld, melt-free, portion-controlled and waste free.
“Thirty years ago, we set out to make Stonyfield a truly sustainable business, coming up with ways to reduce packaging,” says Kristina Drociak, communications manager for London, NH-based Stonyfield. “We’ve long dreamed of truly sustainable packaging, where after you eat the yogurt, you eat the cup, too. When our Co-founder and Chairman Gary Hirshberg first heard about WikiFood’s work on edible packaging inspired by nature, he contacted the inventor of the technology and founder of WikiFoods, Inc., Dr. David Edwards, and soon after, the Frozen Yogurt Pearls project was in the works.”