Freeze-dried Indian fruit ✺ no added sugar ✺ nothing else

Real fruit = a snack you actually crave.

Launching in Bengaluru, October 2027. Be the first to take a bite.

The problem

Gen Z didn't quit fruit. Fruit quit Gen Z.

Chips scattered on a green background

A packet of chips

  • 10 minutes away, every dark store
  • 9-month shelf life, zero prep
  • Fits a pocket, a desk, a commute
  • Almost no nutrition
Two cut mangoes

A mango

  • Everything your body wants
  • Wash, peel, cut, refrigerate
  • Eat within 48 hours, or bin it
  • Same loose format for 50 years
forbidn freeze-dried mango pouch

A pouch of forbidn

  • Real fruit and nothing else
  • 9-month shelf life, zero prep
  • Fits a pocket, a desk, a commute
  • Crunches like a chip

How it's made

Fruit, made snackable.

We remove the water. That's the whole trick. No added sugar, no preservatives, no synthetic flavour. Just fruit that keeps for months and fits in a pocket.

Ripe mangoes
01

Source at peak

Grade-A Indian fruit, picked in season when it's at its sweetest.

Mango cubes
02

Dry, don't cook

The water leaves. Nothing else does. Freeze-dried to a crunch.

forbidn pouch
03

Seal & ship

Single-serve pouches with a 9-month shelf life. No fridge needed.

Grocery bag on wheels
04

10 minutes to you

On the dark-store shelf, then in your desk drawer. A trip a mango could never make.

The forbidn logo over pomegranates

Everyone sells health.

Nobody sells craving.

The range

Three packs. Three cravings.

The 4pm fix, 20g pouch

The 4pm fix

20g · freeze-dried mango · single-serve

₹99

Your afternoon slump, sorted.

Hero pack
The 5-a-day fix, 50g pouch

The 5-a-day fix

50g · assorted mixed bag · share or stash

₹200

A whole day's fruit in one bag.

The eden box gift set

The eden box

3 assortments · gifting & festive

₹400

Gift real fruit, not another dry-fruit box.

We asked 65 of you

You told us what you crave.

0%

snack 4+ times a week

0%

would try a 50g fruit snack

0%

want their mango masala

Flavours on the way. Go on, drag them around.

Classic
Mango
Masala
Mango
Sweet
Chilli
Chilli
Guava
Tajin-style
Masala
Fruit++
protein & collagen
  1. 2027Pure fruit Dried, nothing added.
  2. 2028Flavoured fruit Fruit that eats like a chip.
  3. 2029Fruit, upgraded Doing a supplement's job.

We're rebuilding fruit for the way India snacks now.

Bengaluru first, on Blinkit and Zepto. Then everywhere.