Turning fruit into a new snack experience

In Brazil, where tropical fruit is abundant and deeply woven into daily eating habits, Solve saw an opportunity to turn familiar ingredients into something completely new. The challenge was simple to state but difficult to solve: create a shelf-stable fruit snack that preserved the real taste, color, aroma and nutritional value of fruit, while also delivering a light, crunchy texture consumers would actually want to buy again.

Traditional drying methods often pushed fruit too far from its natural character, producing snacks that were too hard, too chewy or darkened in appearance. Freeze-drying offered quality, but the cost and scalability made it a poor fit for the accessible, everyday snack brand Solve wanted to build.

For us, EnWave became a platform for innovation. It allowed us to rethink what fruit snacks could be: clean-label, shelf-stable, scalable and genuinely delicious.

EnWave partnered with Solve to help bring that vision to life through REV™ technology. Working alongside Daniel and his team, EnWave’s food scientists supported equipment setup, process understanding and product development, helping adapt the process to meet the quality standards Solve was looking for. The focus was not simply on drying fruit, but on building a branded snack experience that felt fresh, fun and commercially viable.

Consistency quickly became one of the biggest priorities. Solve was not just making a product for the lab; it was building a consumer brand, and every batch needed to deliver the same texture, flavor and appearance. That discipline paid off in the first successful products, which matched the team’s vision for a fruit snack that was light, crunchy and shelf-stable without losing its natural character.

Fresh thinking. Fast drying. Fantastic results.

With REV™ technology in place, Solve launched POPS, a consumer snack brand that offers a fun, convenient way to enjoy fruit anywhere, with products designed for consumers looking for something sweet and crunchy without added sugar or a long ingredient list.

The current range includes tropical fruit snacks such as banana, pineapple, mango and strawberry, along with mixed-fruit formats designed for sharing occasions. For Solve, the goal was never just to create a single product. The company wanted a platform that could support both its own brand and future B2B opportunities to contract manufacture dried snacks and ingredients for other food companies.

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Built for growth

Scalability was a decisive factor from the beginning. Solve did not want to build only a laboratory concept; it wanted a production platform that could grow with demand and support ongoing innovation in new fruits, formats, applications and markets. EnWave’s equipment gave the company a flexible production structure at launch, while also creating a clear path to scale.

As demand grows, the ability to scale production while maintaining product quality will be essential for Solve and POPS’ next stage. Beyond supporting its own brand, Solve is also open to co-manufacturing opportunities in South America, offering a flexible production partner for brands looking to bring innovative fruit-based snacks to market. For more information, visit solvefoods.com.br.