Curiosity and awards from Fruit Logistica 2016

Like every year  the international event dedicated to the fruit and vegetable market organized by Messe Berlin features the Innovation Awards, awarded for the high innovation content of products and services.

This year’s first placing went to the Spanish company World’s Coconut Trading for “Genuine Coconut”. Organic, it comes with a patented canned closure system and a straw that enables the easy savouring of the pure coconut water. In second place visitors to Fruit Logistica chose Kitchen Minis-Tomato from the Danish company Northern Greens: a small cherry tomato plant that produces up to 150 cherry tomatoes per year. Compact and visually appealing, it has a diameter of 9-11 cm, and a height of 35 cm, and produces cherry tomatoes that weigh between 8 and 10 g.

The pepper yellow-red stripes “enjoya” from the Dutch company Terra Natura International won third placing: aromatic and with a spicy flavor, it contains extremely high levels of vitamin C.
For the first time the jury also awarded a special prize, that went to the Belgian company Stoffels for the “Automato” mini tomato dispenser: the different colored tomatoes playfully roll from the three containers directly into ones shopping bag.