Pure Fun - Organic Cotton Candy
by Erin Courtenay - Rome, Italy on 07.26.06
Step right up boys and girls! Enjoy the delightful sticky, fluffy, tasty goodness of organic, kosher, vegan, fair-trade cotton candy. Yep, Canadian confectioners Pure FunTM make the sweetest of sweet with air-spun evaporated cane juice and natural fruit and vegetable coloring. Pure Fun believes that candy should be an indulgence, not a dangerous undertaking. Most commercial candy is filled with bizarre and possibly even harmful ingredients. But these candy-makers are creating sweet-treats made without any genetically modified organisms (GMO's), cholesterol, transfats, chemicals, gluten, synthetic flavors or artificial FD&C colorants. Pure Fun uses only organic sugar cane grown by farmers who "green cut" the cane by hand - field burning and chemical sprays are absolutely forbidden. Their earth-friendly farmers even use crushed cane stalks to fire their boilers and generate electricity. Find Pure Fun at some Whole Foods markets or visit their website to learn more.
That's a ridiculous ammount of plastic! Those containers probably weigh as much as or more than their contents... Threads of sugar, mostly air, loads of plastic and fuel for shipping, obscenely overpriced ($6.50/15g = $195.00/lb)... In what way is this sustainable or "green"?
I asked how plastic tubs are green:
HI KAREN,
WE WISH WE COULD USE BAGS. UNFORTUNATELY THERE IS TOO MUCH AIR LEAKAGE FROM THE BAGS AND THE PRODUCT DETERIORATES TOO QUICKLY.
WE DID HOWEVER USE A HIGH QUALITY, TUPPERWARE TYPE TUB THAT IS REUSABLE. KIDS ARE USING IT FOR CRAYONS, SLIT OUT A PORTION OF THE LID AND IT'S A SAVINGS BANK BUCKET,
GREAT FOR GRAIN AND GRANOLA STORAGE...WHATEVER YOU WANT STORED SAFELY AND TIGHTLY SEALED.
THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
REGARDS FOR A PURE FUN EVENING
Luna Roth
President
Pure Fun Confections
CANADA M5S 2W7
[mailto:kjbpod@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:10 PM
To: atyourservice@purefun.ca
Subject: cotton candy
An intriguing product - but poorly packaged! How about using corn-based cellulose bags instead of plastic tubs? Much more in keeping with your "organic, vegan, kosher" credentials!
cheers,
kjb
who sells Pure Fun organic cotton candy in East Lansing Michigan? Thanks David
Is your product available in Colorado SPrings, CO? If so, where?
Plastic...Smastic.....Get over yourself with plastic already. Live it up and fill up the dunps!