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Cartagena already has a healthy alternative for breakfasts and snacks for the whole family.
Fruit trees has hung the open sign to offer smoothies and natural juices based on fruits and vegetables, a refreshing and healthy option to combat the summer heat, which also serves as a snack in any season of the year.
With the help of the Local Agency for Development and Employment and through the workshops for entrepreneurs taught by AMUSAL, these two young people, now entrepreneurs, knew the tools and procedures necessary to take the first steps in opening their own business.
The story of Elena Martínez and Wilson Buitrago is the story of an entire generation in our country: two unemployed young people who did not find their place in a saturated labor market.
But they did not remain static and decided to take the leap and change the unemployment situation in which they found themselves.
The landing has its own name: Frutales, an establishment open in the middle of Ángel Bruna street that offers smoothies and healthy juices, an exotic bet but with a base well founded on the food trends that prevail today in our society.
As the co-owner, Wilson Buitrago, at first considered several business possibilities, but opted to offer this natural alternative to ice cream and processed products, "and that is especially aimed at children" to encourage healthy living habits among them , but that is also an essential option for all those people aware of good nutrition.
Towards the month of March, four months ago, Frutales started up its blenders and began its journey, for which the workshop for entrepreneurs that they accessed through the ADLE helped them a lot, "from this workshop they were guiding us on how develop our ideas, as well as on the possibilities that the business would have once implemented, "says Buitrago.
Now they feel "happy with the acceptance that our business is having", because although it is still unknown specialties for most people "once they taste the product they like it a lot and always come back to repeat", says the co-owner.
While Elena selects the fruit that she had previously frozen to make a Detox shake (Cucumber, pineapple, spinach, lemon, ginger, mint and chlorella) one can hear how someone asks for a Cher, which is that most of the shakes have been baptized with names of celebrities of the song and the cinema.
Thus, we can find an Al Pacino, which contains mango, papaya and pineapple;
a Bogart, based on banana and orange or a Beyoncé, consisting of frozen yogurt with mango, passion fruit and chia.
"For the preparation of our letter we have the advice of a dietitian," says Buitrago.
In addition, in Frutales they offer a typical specialty of the Colombian culinary tradition: the Cholaos, an ice-based dessert, fruit syrup, chopped fruit and condensed milk to which a flavor of ice cream is added to choose, "a good option for spend the afternoon with a different snack, "the owners add.
Currently, during the morning, the consumption of any milkshake will be accompanied by toast, "we want to encourage the consumption of healthy food also during breakfast, so we offer toast for free," says Buitrago.
The letter and all the novelties that this establishment offers, can be consulted in the social networks of Frutales.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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