Interview with Planut Goods, Plant Milks & Nut Butters Made Better for You & for the Planet

Finely milled nuts to create a super smooth paste that you simply add water to then blend for fresh plant milk in seconds. Products are made from 100% whole nuts for complete nutrition of a whole food. Store bough plant milk include unnecessary ingredients such as gums, fillers and emulsifiers. Planut pouches contain up to four litres of plant-based milk that is free from GMO ingredients and gluten, and is vegan and paleo friendly. Plant milks can be blended into your desired creaminess and is shelf stable for optimal use.

1. Welcome to the GBN family Planut Goods! Can you tell us a little bit about yourselves?

Thank you for welcoming us to the GBN family. At Planut Goods we make delicious plant-based products using as few ingredients as possible. From Plant Milk Concentrates, that you add to water and blend fresh, to better-for-you-Nut Butters.

 2. Can you take us through this new range and the catalyst behind your innovation?

Our Milk Bases and Nut Butters utilise a proprietary milling process to achieve an extra smooth and creamy mouth feel. Our new range of Planut Milk Bases come in Almond, Oat and our Barista blend of Almonds, Cashews and Hazelnuts. We created Planut Milk Bases because most ready to drink cartons of Plant Milk contain gums, emulsifiers and fillers, in place of nuts and plants. We wanted to empower people to create fresh plant milk from pure ingredients. Our Milk Bases are shelf stable and only require refrigeration after the fresh milk has been made. This allows people to keep a range of Milk Bases in the pantry and blend fresh as much or as little plant milk as they’d like per use. We also give people the flexibility to dial up and down the creaminess, by adjusting how much Base they add.

Our range of Nut butters includes Chocolate Peanut Butter, Crunchy Peanut Butter, Smooth Peanut Butter, and Roasted Almond Butter. We have developed our range using the highest quality ingredients and sweetened them with whole dates instead of refined sugars.

3. How does Planut Milk and Peanut Butter differ to others on the market?

For starters, Planut Milk Bases allow people to make fresh and pure plant milk in seconds, from the comfort of their home kitchen. The flexible squeeze pouch of both our Milk Bases and Nut Butters, also provides people with the added freedom of taking their favourite products with them on the go.

4. Do you have a favourite in the range?

That’s like asking a parent to pick a favourite child. That’s tough to do. We love all our products because they’re deliciously unique. However, we must say we love our Barista Base for its hazelnut notes that compliment a coffee perfectly.

5. What has been the biggest challenge in creating this brand?

We spent a lot of time experimenting with different ingredients and formulations to create products that are both delicious and healthy. Using only whole nuts and pure plants in our Planut Milk Bases demanded we use the freshest ingredients, milled precisely to our desired consistency. It took 2 years to develop but we nailed it.

6. What does ‘wellness’ mean to you and how do you adopt it in your everyday routine?

To us, wellness is both being healthy and having fun. We believe you can have both and our products are a testament to great taste and health. It’s a balance in life. Here at Planut Goods we practise daily wellness by always adopting a positive mindset, nourishing our bodies with nutritious foods… and sipping on our morning Planut latte.

7. What has your experience with GBN been like?

Our experience with GBN has been fantastic! The team at GBN have been supportive and helpful every step of the way. We are excited to be part of the GBN family and look forward to a long and successful partnership.

At Global By Nature, we distribute 250 brands and over 2,500 health and wellness products to trade. Our knowledgeable team are passionate about connecting you with the best quality health brands that support the growth of your business.

Interview with Jorge Carlos Fiestas, Co-Founder & Marketing Manager at The Healthy Llama

An Australian family-owned business with over 30 years experience in Australian health industry, who truly believes that healthy eating and loving llamas is the secret to emotional and physical wellbeing. The Healthy Llama brand is designed to delivery authentic food to fuel an authentic life, putting to work Peruvian superfoods that can best help health concious consumers achieve wellness.

Combining the vibrant flavours of South America with the love and dedication of an Australian family member. Made for the Aussie lifestyle by Aussies. An authentically made broad selection of plant-based organic superfoods, with many physical and emotional benefits and unique flavours.

1.    Welcome to the Global By Nature family Healthy Llama! Can you tell us a little bit about how the brand was born?

Thank you for including us in the Global By Nature family; we are very excited about this opportunity.

In mid-2021, as a family-owned business dedicated to delivering medical solutions to healthcare organisations, we decided to give back to the Australian people by creating a multicultural brand based on Australian values to provide emotional, mental and physical well-being, promoting healthy eating and lifestyle.

So we did lots of research and identified that Australians want to invest in maintaining and improving their lifestyle by eating unique healthy superfoods. Australians consider that investing in healthy eating is similar to investing in life insurance, but you get to enjoy it. Research also demonstrated that most of the best superfoods available come from Peru, which is also the home of llamas, so we decided to travel to the millennial land of the Incas to search for the best superfoods for Australians.

Not long after, The Healthy Llama was born to deliver authentic food to fuel an authentic life by providing top-quality value-for-the-money superfoods to all Australians to help them enjoy their lifestyles.

2.    What is the significance of the Llama and how does it translate into your brand?

During our endeavours in Peru, we ran into many llamas and realised that they are the best combination between a dog and a horse. They work and play hard; they are inquisitive, friendly and smart. Llamas protect the members of their pack, regardless of their species.

Furthermore, llamas are also therapeutic animals. Llamas worldwide are increasingly being employed to help people with a range of physical and mental impairments, including Autism, PTSD and epilepsy, and we believe that the Peruvian superfoods that we chose for Australians are aligned with the emotional/mental well-being delivered by llamas. 

At that moment, having a llama as part of our brand started to make sense; as we know, llamas have become the new unicorns; they are everywhere! And we feel that llamas are our spirit animal, as our staff is true to ourselves, cares for others, and thrives in generosity and easy-going, laid-back people. 

3.    Maca, Lucuma and Cacao have been used as traditional forms of medicine in Peru for many years. Can you explain their health benefits and how they’re beneficial in current day?

Nowadays, maintaining a healthy lifestyle is a real challenge. Emotional, mental and physical stress has become a real and deadly disease. Trying to balance family, work, studies, hobbies, and enjoying life is a goal that our generation wants to achieve. For that to happen, we need fuel (food) to make things happen, and these Peruvian superfoods are the perfect fuel to achieve a healthy balance to enjoy your lifestyle.

For example, yellow and black maca help you to produce energy and stamina and enhance focus. Maca allows you to perform at your top level, but at the same time, is also supports body and mind recovery. This fuel is not burning you, is helping your body to have healthy mental and physical endurance. Also, helps you with your sexual health, a critical area affected by stress.

Furthermore, lucuma is just as llamazing as maca, is sweet and really healthy. The sweet gold of the Incas. It supports a healthy immune system and recent studies demonstrate that it supports heart and blood health, in addition to enhancing fertility and libido. Research also demonstrate that lucuma improves tissue regeneration and prevents constipation. Finally, it is currently used to manage diabetes, as it stabilises sugar in the blood.

Moreover, camu camu is considered as the berry with the most concentration of vitamin C, which helps to boost the immune system better than traditional sources of vitamin C, like oranges. Also, research indicate that it promotes bone health, supporting the production of collagen that also helps to maintain healthy teeth and skin. Studies also demonstrate that camu camu reduces tissue, and muscle inflammation; it also supports to maintain healthier blood pressure.

Finally, cacao has been considered as the antioxidant king for many years, and research demonstrate that it helps to maintain healthy digestion, blood pressure and heart health.

You can pick and choose what superfood would be aligned to your lifestyle goals or mix them all; personally, I love mixing maca, lucuma and camu camu in my daily life.

4.    What has been the most challenging aspect to building the Healthy Llama brand?

We are a family-oriented brand; we are real people, authentic by nature, we accept ourselves as who we are, and we believe in ourselves even we are not perfect. We respect the positioning of other brands using superfoods; however, it is a challenge for us to promote superfoods for what they are, enhancers of a healthy life, and not for trendy aspects of superfoods.

We believe that superfoods are real; they are not a buzzword. They are not miracle cures either; they need to be accompanied with behaviours that will help individuals to have an emotional, mental and physical balance to enjoy more quality time with their loved ones or just do what they love. We want to deliver wellness for you to enjoy your authentic life to the fullest.

 5.    Which is the SKU in the range that you absolutely can’t live without?

Difficult question. We believe that we have a wide range of products that can accommodate different healthy lifestyles. However, we love our chocolates! They are unique in taste, texture and health benefits; they are very convenient and mix perfectly with our single-origin organic coffee!

Our top favourite powders, which we can mix in smoothies and desserts, are maca, lucuma and camu camu. They make our smoothies and desserts tasty and healthy.

 6.    What does ‘wellness’ mean to you and how to you adopt it in your everyday?

We understand wellness as having a balance in our personal and professional lives; being able to manage and balance our emotions, thoughts, physical energy, and finances to achieve the lifestyle that makes us happy. We do not want perfection, we want simple happiness, being able to enjoy the great-simple things of life, even when challenges are present.

At The Healthy Llama, we love to work and play hard. Our objective is to work hard to deliver wellness to ourselves and to others with our products. Then, we have fun. We laugh a lot; we take care of our emotional and emotional well-being; laughing helps a lot; we are easy-going, Converse-like people, but a great complement is to use our own products to live The Healthy Llama experience, even interacting with real llamas to keep it real. Every day, we aim to represent the values of our brand.

7.    What has your experience with GBN been like so far?

As we said at the beginning, we are very grateful to be part of the GBN family. You have been very welcoming, and we believe that by working together, we can achieve our organisation’s objectives seamlessly, which is a total win-win!

At Global By Nature, we distribute 250 brands and over 2,500 health and wellness products to trade. Our knowledgeable team are passionate about connecting you with the best quality health brands that support the growth of your business.