About Us

ABOUT ZEE ZEES^®

We’re about two things here at Zee Zees – three if you count having fun – but mainly making good foods and making them in good ways.

Wholesome ingredients, interesting ways of putting them together, a full serving of fruit or veggies when we can and a helping of common sense, tied together in one big bursting-with-flavor bow. That’s what we’re about.  

With Zee Zees It's Z'all Good!

Zee Zees is part of the National Food Group family

About National Food Group - Partnering For Participation

National Food Group has been partnering with K-12 schools across the nation since 1990. We fuel the next generation with wholesome food that is healthy and on budget. Our mission is to provide our customers with creative food solutions while building long-lasting relationships.

Zee Zees was born out of our love of providing healthier options that kids will truly enjoy! Favorite flavors and creative characters combine to drive increased participation and satisfy kids of all kinds - especially picky eaters.  Zee Zees are nut free and innovatively designed to meet school meal requirements. For example, all of our fruit cups and applesauce always meet a half cup serving of fruit! All kinds of meal pattern options availlable.

Many Zee Zees items are also available to schools through commodity processing - let our team of experts help you through the process. We are one of the leading commodity fruit processors in the nation.

Collaboration with our customers is vital to developing and sourcing products that meet the USDA regulations while still matching the nutritional trends, consumer preferences and tight budgets of our customers. We understand the need to shake up the apple cart and develop new ideas, with formulations and products that exceed our customers’ expectations. We dedicate time, effort and financial resources to bring food scientists, dietitians, chefs and food sourcing experts to the table to develop, test and refine products that fulfill specialized school requirements.

WHY WORK WITH NATIONAL FOOD GROUP?

National Food Group supplies a variety of nutritious items to K-12 schools across the nation. We fuel the next generation with wholesome food that is not only healthy, it makes the most of your school’s budget!

Our mission is to provide our customers with creative food solutions while building long-lasting relationships.

• Single point of contact
• National distribution (direct & distributors)
• Products specifically formulated for K12
• Ability to mix and match items to meet small minimums
• NSLP nutritional requirement expertise
• USDA commodity processing amd regulations expertise
• Student testing and branded promotional material

We can help you increase student participation and make healthy food choices more fun for students of all ages.

Contact us today!   Learn More! Visit National Food Group

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Working To Make A Positive Impact

At Zee Zees, our better-for-you approach reaches to other parts of our business, not only our ingredients! Here are some of the ways that Zee Zees works to make a positive impact:

Helping Food Insecure Families: Zee Zees, and our parent company National Food Group, are committed to helping food insecure families by:

• Donating 5% of our annual profits to organizations that alleviate food insecurity for local families, providing nutritious food and nutrition education
• Annually donating 1 million servings of food
• Volunteering at local food banks, helping to prepare meals kits for families in need

 

Better-For-You Ingredients: We’re about two things here at Zee Zees, making good foods and making them in good ways. We believe in hearty, wholesome ingredients to energize kids and adults alike, to help them flourish as they grow, and to make healthy snacking choices.

• All of our grain-based products are at least 51% whole grain
• Our fruit cups are in 100% juice, not in syrup
• No high fructose corn syrup in any of our products
• Protein-packed snacks that keep you fuller longer
• Unsweetened applesauce options
• Low sodium options

 

Dietary Considerations: At Zee Zees, we know the struggle of finding tasty allergen-friendly foods, and foods that fit within a desired dietary need, for yourself or your child – especially a picky eater! We offer a variety of snacks available for many dietary restrictions.

• As of 2019 none of our snacks contain peanuts or tree nuts
• Some of our snacks are soy free
• Many of our snacks are naturally vegan, and as of 2019 all are vegetarian
• Some of our snacks are gluten free
• Most of our products are Kosher

See our FAQ Page for more details on what is safe for you and your child to enjoy.

 

Reducing Food Waste: Zee Zees was founded because we saw an opportunity to help schools increase participation during meals served in the cafeteria. A school with fresh apples has a limited time frame that those apples must be eaten, and a school full of picky eaters who might not take the apples for their lunch trays, leading to many uneaten apples! Through our commodity processing abilities available to our K12 school customers, we’re able to turn raw commodities like apples and other fruit into Zee Zees shelf-stable, applesauce or fruit cups that students – and their foodservice team – love!

Our Team: A good brand can’t be done without a great team – and a happy one! We aim to be a wonderful place to work! At Zee Zees and National Food Group we follow a set of core values which we hope emanate through our products, helping us to create the very best products for our customers! At Zee Zees our core values are:

• Agility: we remain flexible with changes in the market and with food trends
• Innovation: a key ingredient for success, having fresh ideas for snacks and flavors
• Integrity: a non-negotiable, we operate with honesty and transparency
• Relevance: staying relevant to today’s dietary needs, food trends, and more
• Fun: fun packaging, fun characters, fun flavors, and a fun attitude!

Learn more about our core values in our Core Values Video.