Healthy Hippo

🦛 Classic candy vibes—made better for kids, parents, and the planet.

Healthy Hippo is a true plant-based legacy. Founder Ashley Paterson is a third-generation plant-based entrepreneur, raised in a household where ingredients mattered and innovation was the norm. With her mom behind Big Mountain Foods—one of the early pioneers in plant-based meat—Ashley grew up learning that food should be simple, ethical, and nourishing.

Now a mom herself, Ashley set out to solve a familiar problem: candy kids love, without the sugar crashes, tummy troubles, or ingredient guilt. The result is Healthy Hippo—plant-based candy that tastes like the treats you remember from childhood, just made smarter.

Healthy Hippo is the first candy company in North America to sweeten exclusively with monk fruit, delivering perfectly balanced sweetness without sugar alcohols, preservatives, artificial flavours, or colourants. Every candy is low sugar, non-GMO, gentle on digestion, and made with high-quality ingredients you can actually feel good about.