Meet the Spinneys Harvest Heroes

There’s an exciting new product hitting the shelves exclusively at Spinneys – the Harvest Heroes card game! Based on the classic game of Top Trumps that we all know and love, Harvest Heroes is a card collection featuring 52 fun fruit and vegetable characters, like Basheer the Blueberry and Clara the Clementine.

Designed for children aged 7-11, Harvest Heroes aims to become a favourite game for young people in the UAE, while simultaneously educating them about healthy eating habits and basic nutrition.

Each card showcases the nutrition levels of the different fruit and vegetable characters, across the categories of protein, carbohydrates, energy (kcal) and fibre.

Who has more fibre – is it Sophia the Strawberry or Antonio the Avocado? The cards also feature a range of fun facts for each character, for example – did you know that strawberries are full of vitamin C to help us stay healthy, and they are the only fruit in the world that have seeds on the outside?

Here's how to play Harvest Heroes:

To play the game, the first player must choose a nutritional fact from their card and compete against other players, where the highest value wins the round and collects the cards. The player who finishes the game with all the cards is the Harvest Hero winner.

But that's not all, we have also created ‘Harvest Superheroes’ – a mix of 5 limited edition collectable foil cards that can be found at random in 1 of every 10 packs of Harvest Heroes. Pick up a packet of Harvest Heroes and you may be lucky enough to find Superhero Barak the Basil Plant or Superheroes Delilah and Don the Dragonfruits, and more.

The launch of Harvest Heroes is the latest pillar in our Spinneys Farm to Table programme – the region’s first comprehensive healthy eating and sustainable food programME for children. Launched in 2021, our Farm to Table team is on a mission to educate one million individuals about healthy sustainable diets by the end of 2023. The programme, currently operating in several public and private schools across the UAE, teaches how food is produced both locally and internationally, showing the food journey from the farm to the dinner table. It includes educational modules, visits to local farms, healthy cooking classes with well-known chefs, inspiring talks with local producers, and visits to our Spinneys Layan store – our first-ever sustainable supermarket.