Candid Fruit — Sustainably Sourced
Rescuing ugly & almost-expired produce

We bring the cannery to your fruit.

Candid is mobile canning for farmers and grocers. Call a canning truck to your lot, or book a pickup to a nearby facility. Your bruised, spotted, and surplus fruit becomes shelf-stable goodness instead of compost.

Use the Fruit FinderHow it works
2.1M
lbs of fruit saved
430+
farms & grocers
100%
of the harvest used
A municipal waste dumpster behind a store's receiving door overflowing with perfectly good discarded fruit — apples, oranges, bananas, grapes, pears, and berries
Too good to waste
How Candid works

From orchard to pantry in four steps

Ripe produce doesn't wait around. Neither do we. The whole process is built to catch fruit right before it turns.

  1. 1

    Tell us what you've got

    Log your surplus, bruised, or ugly produce in the Fruit Finder. Pick a size and a date.

  2. 2

    We come to you

    A mobile canning unit rolls up to your farm or store. No truck? Book a pickup instead.

  3. 3

    Fruit gets canned

    We wash, cut, and can on site — turning would-be waste into shelf-stable jars and tins.

  4. 4

    Stock or share

    Keep your canned goods to sell, donate them, or split the batch. Nothing hits the bin.

The Fruit Finder

Find the right canning run for your fruit

Answer a few quick questions and we'll match you with a mobile unit or a facility pickup — and show you the waste you'll keep out of the landfill.

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A grocery store shelf stocked with rows of Candid Fruit canned products in peach, strawberry, blackberry and raspberry flavors
Zero to landfill
Why it matters

Sustainability you can taste

Candid exists to close the gap between a bumper harvest and the bin. Every truck run and pickup is one less pile of produce rotting in a field or a dumpster.

  • Waste, rerouted

    Roughly a third of all produce never gets eaten. Candid intercepts it at the source and gives it a second shelf life.

  • Value for growers

    Fruit that's too ripe or too ugly to sell fresh still has real worth. We help you capture it instead of eating the loss.

  • Communities fed

    Surplus batches can be routed to food banks and pantries, turning a glut into meals for people nearby.

Built for the people who grow & sell

Who Candid is for

For farmers

Seconds, windfalls, and end-of-season gluts no longer go to waste. Can on site during harvest and turn surplus into a new revenue stream.

  • On-farm canning, no hauling
  • Keep or sell your batch
  • Paid by the pound diverted

For grocery stores

Clear the produce department of bruised and aging stock before it gets marked down to nothing. Reduce shrink and your dumpster bill.

  • Daily or weekly pickups
  • Lower waste-hauling costs
  • Stock private-label cans

Got fruit about to turn? Let's can it.

Run the Fruit Finder and we'll match you with the right truck or pickup in under a minute.

Open the Fruit Finder