Shipping
We offer low-cost shipping to the mainland and within Hawaii (APO and PO Boxes included). We also offer international shipping. Your exact shipping rate will be calculated at checkout. Typically, we fulfill orders within 3-4 days. Once the order is fulfilled, transit within the state of Hawaii is 1-2 days, and 5-6 to continental USA via USPS Priority Mail. For larger orders ($150+), we may opt to use UPS Ground shipping which typically has similar shipping times. International orders are also shipped through USPS.
Note: We package and send out all orders within 3-4 days of them being placed. Unfortunately, once we drop them off with USPS, the timeframes are out of our control. As a small business, we kindly ask for your patience in the event of any unforeseen shipping delays. If you have still not received your order within 10 days, please contact us and we will do our best to help you.
Returns
We cannot accept any returns as our products are food items. However, if you are dissatisfied with our products in any way, please contact us and we will be happy to make your whole.
Fruit Philosophy
Aloha, we are Lin and Chris
We're Lin and Chris ter Horst — the epicureans behind it all.
We are often asked how we ended up making candies in paradise. It’s a good question, seeing as our roots led us all over the world before we found our beloved home in the tropics. Lin is Shanghai-born and raised in New York, and Chris is a native of the Netherlands. It was when our paths led us separately to Beijing that we found each other and fell in love over a shared passion for running.
After moving to Maui in 2012, we were quickly enamored by the island’s abundance of fruits. We encountered fruits constantly as we adjusted to island-life—wild guavas on mountain hikes, ripened lilikoi dropping in neighbors’ backyards, prickly pears on roadside cacti, apple bananas gifted to us by kind farmers… Perhaps the answer to why we started it all is simply that it was impossible for us to sit idle with all that fruit on our doorsteps!
That’s when the idea for Maui Fruit Jewels began to shine.
Lin—trained as a professional pastry chef at the Le Cordon Bleu in London—began developing recipes to make the island’s beloved flavors shine. She adapted pâte de fruits, a traditional French confection, to better showcase the bold flavors of Hawaii’s local fruits. Chris—an engineer and, at the time, a professional triathlete—had been training on Maui’s intense slopes and oceans. Inspired by Lin’s ideas, Chris quickly shifted his goals and channeled his hard-working spirit into creating what would become Maui Fruit Jewels.
We are proud to provide treats that are crafted according to our values, utilizing ingredients of the highest quality and only fruits that are sourced locally. Maui Fruit Jewels remains a family-run operation, inspired by Hawaii and its people. We are thrilled to offer you a taste of our island paradise, no matter where you are.
Aloha, Lin & Chris
