FruitaBu Partners with Brown Bag Naturals to HelpProvide Healthy School Lunches.

Organic Fruit Snacks Now Offered in Lunch Deliveries to Elementary School Students

GRAPEVIEW, Wash. -- Stretch Island Fruit Co., makers of FruitaBu[TM] Organic Smoooshed Fruit[TM], all-natural organic fruit snacks for kids, today announced it has joined in partnership with Brown Bag Naturals,

a company that prepares and delivers healthy bag lunches directly to schools throughout Southern California. As Brown Bag Naturals' first "Pantry Partner", FruitaBu fruit snacks, which contain one-half to a whole serving of organic fruit per package, will be featured prominently on menus designed to offer parents nutritious, organic and all-natural school lunch options for their kids.

"According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 17 percent of children ages 2 to 9 are overweight. Brown Bag Naturals hopes that by offering parents and children healthier food choices at lunchtime, we're making healthy eating fun," says Adam Zauder, founder of Brown Bag Naturals. "Fruit and vegetables play an important role in healthy eating. With FruitaBu fruit snacks, we're giving kids a fun and convenient way to get more servings of fruit in their diets."

Current FruitaBu products include Organic Smoooshed Fruit Twirls[TM], Organic Smoooshed Fruit Flats[TM] and the new Organic Smoooshed Fruit Sploooshers[TM]. All are USDA certified organic, feature more than 90 percent real fruit juice and contain only sugars found naturally in real fruit. Through the Brown Bag Naturals school lunch program, the organic fruit snacks are currently distributed to approximately 1,000 students at private, public and charter schools throughout Southern California.

"FruitaBu was designed to evoke wonder and excitement in children while enabling them to enjoy organic fruit anytime and anywhere," says John Henry Siedlecki, spokesperson for FruitaBu. "Together with Brown Bag Naturals, we are delivering real-fruit nutrition to kids while providing an added convenience that busy parents will appreciate."

About FruitaBu Organic Smoooshed Fruit

The FruitaBu[TM] Organic Smoooshed Fruit[TM] brand is dedicated to providing kids with a fun, organic and convenient way to enjoy real fruit. Its innovative line of organic fruit snacks deliver real fruit to kids through a wondrous, Organic Smoooshed Fruit experience that delights the senses and nourishes the body. FruitaBu was created by the fine folks at Stretch Island Fruit Co., a leading developer of all-natural and organic fruit snacks that have been making it easy for people to enjoy the nourishing goodness of real fruit since 1976.

About Brown Bag Naturals

Brown Bag Naturals brings healthful eating to campus and makes it fun, by providing wholesome and nutritious versions of foods kids love - like chicken nuggets, quesadillas and turkey hoagies - prepared with the highest quality natural and organic ingredients. The Company's lunches, which can be ordered online up to a month in advance, are delivered directly to school and contain seasonal fruits and vegetables, whole grains and quality proteins. Founded in 2005, the Brown Bag Naturals is expanding rapidly throughout Southern California, with plans to enter additional markets during the 2008-09 school year.