YoNaturals Introduces New Beverage To Middle And High Schools

YoNaturals® Healthy Vending brings new Fizz Ed® to Schools as a Healthier Alternative to Traditional Sodas for Students. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) June 03, 2008 - Students in middle schools and high schools throughout the country will soon have a healthy and great tasting alternative to the soft drinks and other sugar-laden beverages that have been monopolizing their school vending machines for far too long. YoNaturals® Healthy Vending has announced that it will carry new Fizz Ed® Pure Fruit Juice & Sparkling Water in its growing network of in-school healthy vending machines – giving students the taste and “look” of the carbonated beverages they love in a healthy tasting format.ing format.

Fizz Ed, launched this year by healthy juice company Apple & Eve and approved by the USDA for sale in schools, is a unique combination of a pure, all-natural fruit juice and sparking water – aimed specifically for the tween/teen market. The product, which is packaged in sleek, 8.4 ounce cans, proved to be an instant hit with both students and school officials when YoNaturals test marketed the product in San Diego-area middle/high schools this fall – prompting YoNaturals to decide to offer this healthy beverage option to its vending machine distributors throughout the country. The move to bring Fizz Ed to vending machines nationwide comes at a time when more and more schools are banning the sale of sodas and other sugar-added beverages.

Fizz Ed contains a blend of 70% pure fruit juice and 30% sparkling water, as well as natural Vitamin C. In addition, Fizz Ed doesn’t contain the high fructose corn syrup, artificial color/flavor and sodium benzoate found in traditional sodas. The product line, which was launched to the school foodservice industry in the fall of 2007, is currently available in select retail outlets in four flavors: Red Raspberry, Orange Mango, Pomegranate Cherry and Green Apple. “Our goal was to offer students a healthier alternative when it comes to selecting a beverage while at school,” said Bill Harrison, VP of Sales, Apple & Eve. “Making Fizz Ed a part of the YoNaturals unique new healthy vending machine concept fits in exactly within what we set out to do.”

YoNaturals will be offering Fizz Ed to its distributors in 63 cities across the country as the product becomes available in each market. YoNaturals provides healthy vending machine programs for elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, colleges, health clubs and hospitals. For more information about YoNaturals please visit www.yonaturals.com or call Mark Trotter at (858) 794-9955 ext 102.

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