meet the founder

A Natural Born Legacy

Ashley Paterson is a third-generation plant-based entrepreneur! Learning from the best, Ashley’s Mom founded Big Mountain Foods, an early leader and innovator in plant-based meat alternatives.

Values Matter

Ashley grew up understanding the importance of:

- Wholesome, simple, & nutritious ingredients
- Ethically & sustainably sourced supply chain
- Minimized environmental impact

A Higher Standard

Now with a daughter of her own, Ashley set out to create what every mom wants – candy kids will LOVE and moms will feel GREAT about (and enjoy themselves!)

- Plant-Based
- Low sugar, highest quality ingredients
- Taste great with no upset tummies
- Non-GMO
- Carbon Neutral Certified

low sugar, still delicious

Same great tasting candy from your childhood, but made better for you

Being #HIPPTOHEALTH

Healthy Hippo is leading the way with plant-based innovations only!

100% plant based

Healthy Hippo is the first candy company in North America to sweeten with just monk fruit!

Low Sugar

At Healthy Hippo we are excited to announce that we’ve joined the PLANET->FWD crew to become carbon neutral certified. It’s a badge we wear proudly.

Carbon Neutral

No sugar alcohols, preservatives, flavorings or colorants! Everything in our candy is made of natural, non-GMO ingredients.

Non-GMO Project Verified

innovation with monk fruit

We believe in using the best quality ingredients in our products. This is why we’re the first North American company to only use monk fruit to sweeten our candy - giving us that perfectly balanced sweetness that doesn’t overpower the fruit flavours.

Sure it’d be easier to use stevia and sugar alcohols, but we don’t do easy…

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better for you and better for the environment

Healthy Hippo is leading the category as the only low sugar candy brand in North America to have a carbon neutral certification, targeting sustainability improvements from our ingredients to transportation, processing and packaging.

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