By Anders Lorenzen

As an active person and having almost completely eradicated meat from my diet, I’m always on the lookout for healthy high-protein snacks that are produced in the least harmful way and to the highest sustainability standards.

Navigating supply chains

In today’s globalised with the complicated element of supply chains, of which it can be tricky to find accurate information, how do you go about sourcing products that do not cost the  Earth?

When I heard about Truly Nuts!, which was established last year – I became curious.

A sustainable approach

The company was founded by Gareth Lloyd and Greg Vickers as an arm of White Lion Foods which is one of the world’s largest producers of Brazil nuts.

They wanted Truly Nuts to make the nut more appealing and they have innovated an approach to be the first company to flavour Brazil Nuts and that their production is truly sustainable.

How Truly Nuts! Support rainforest conservation

Being an avid consumer of nuts, I’m embarrassed to admit how little I knew about the Brazil nut, and while all sorts of companies throw around the word sustainability – I was there at first a little ambivalent at what the company said about their sustainability efforts, that was to change quickly though.

My world was opened to the Brazil nut when co-founder Lloyd offered to explain a little bit more about the nut and the company’s operations.

The amazing history of the Brazil nut

To my astonishment, I learned that the Brazil nut is the only nut that cannot be farmed and grows wild in the Amazon jungle, which is the only place in the world where it can be found. It is also directly linked to the conservation of the Amazonas as the one way to scale up production, of mainstream nuts the Brazil nut is the one with the lowest production volumes, is to protect as well as reforest the jungle as the Brazil nut tree thrives on deep jungle conditions. 

Truly Nuts! Support and creates local jobs

Truly Nuts works with an army of local pickers who take the harvest to local collection centres where they will be offered the given market price, it will then be taken to its state-of-the-art factory in the Peruvian Amazon.

A fair wage and the charitable approach

Truly Nuts told me they actively support a fair wage, workers’ rights, several Amazon tree-planting projects as well as several community projects with 25% of its profits going towards such projects.

The variety of Truly Nuts! Products

The product itself is delicious with so many flavours and nuts in different sizes and shapes to fit my appetite needs at different times of day, and it somehow tastes better when it is not produced in an environmental or climate-damaging way. 

How to purchase Truly Nuts!

You can find more about the project here and place your first delivery.

Anders Lorenzen is the founding Editor of A greener life, a greener world.