Rui Lima Miranda founded Nutri Ventures in August 2009, alongside Rodrigo Carvalho and Pedro Van Zeller, to create an animated series promoting healthy eating habits. By 2011, the series was being pitched to TV channels and envisioned an initial series of 52 episodes with 23 minutes each. The cost of the project at the time was estimated to be €250,000; using a fund offered by Red Star. The initial target was to air the series in Portugal and Spain in the first quarter of 2012, while subsequently being dubbed into several languages. Seen at the time as the largest animation project in Portuguese history, almost a hundred people were working to get the series running by 2012, totalling 600 minutes of animation. Animation was made at Bang Bang Animation in Lisbon. The English dub was done in Miami at studios used by Disney. The product was sold in television fairs and received approval from Mexican and Brazilian stations, while it was outlined that the series would air in Portugal on
RTP2 and
Canal Panda. In early 2013, it was already airing in 21 countries and was airing on the
Spanish version of Disney Channel, becoming the first Portuguese animated series airing in Spain. By October, it consistently reached third or fifth place when it was airing on Portuguese channels. In 2015, the company opened offices in New York to handle distribution, reaching out to more television channels and streaming services. After arriving to the United States as a streaming exclusive on Hulu and Kabillion, the series arrived to linear TV on the over-the-air kids network
Qubo in 2016. == Reception ==