Nutri Ventures Explained

Alt Name:	Nutri Ventures – The Quest for the 7 Kingdoms
Creator:	Watermelon
Director:	Rodrigo Carvalho
Country:	Portugal
Language:	Portuguese
Voices:	Antonio Amadeo Aubrey Shavonn Barry Tarallo Betsy Graver James Keller Lela Elam Mark Wells Nicole Mitchell Oscar Cheda Rita Wells Scott Genn Scott Wilson Todd Durkin Wayne Legett
Opentheme:	"Nutri Ventures Theme" By Simon Wadsworth, Rodrigo Carvalho, and João Ramos; performed by Paula Teixeira
Num Seasons:	5
Num Episodes:	52
Executive Producer:	Rui Lima Miranda Rodrigo Carvalho Pedro Van Zeller
Producer:	Nutri Ventures SA
Runtime:	24 minutes
Company:	Nutri Ventures Corporation

Nutri Ventures (also known as Nutri Ventures – The Quest for the 7 Kingdoms, Portuguese: Nutri Ventures – Em Busca dos 7 Reinos) is an animated television series produced by the Nutri Ventures Corporation and is distributed through Hulu Kids.^[1]

Synopsis

Young heroes Theo, Lena, Ben, and Nina go on a mission to discover food-group kingdoms in this animated series. Traveling from kingdom to kingdom, the heroes discover the nutripowers of the lost foods that they rescue. Their goal is to bring healthy food back to their city, where supervillain Alex Grand makes sure that no food exists. With childhood obesity on the rise, "Nutri Ventures" aims to create a positive message about healthy eating for young people.

Characters

Main

• Theo is the leader of the main group. He keeps the medallion with him.
• Lena is the most intelligent of the group. She keeps the NutriPad with her to level nutrition on people.
• Ben is fat and has a crush on Inca.
• Nina is playful and cute. She is Theo's younger sister.
• Alex Grand is the main antagonist of the series. The president of the Unhealthy Food Grand Corporation, he replaced all the food in the world with a food-like product called "Genex 100".
• Murdock was Alex's elderly father, who had a vision of Theo saving the food.
• Nose is Alex's second-in-command.
• Nexus is the leader of the seven Guardians.
• The Gugas are small and spherical bulldog-like creatures. The purple one usually accompanies the main four.
• Guardian Purple is Theo's grandfather.
• Teacher/Phyllis is Theo's teacher. She thinks of Alex Grand as a role model.

Episodes

Series overview

Season	Episodes	Originally aired<		-- ! style="padding: 0px 80px" colspan="3"	DVD release date -->
		Season premiere	Season finale
The Origins (2012)	2	September 26, 2012	September 27, 2012
Season 1 (2012)	11	September 30, 2012	October 10, 2012
Season 2 (2012)	9	October 11, 2012	October 19, 2012
Season 3 (2013)	9	March 15, 2013	April 4, 2013
Season 4 (2013)	11	October 2, 2013	October 16, 2013
Season 5 (2014)	10	April 5, 2014	April 18, 2014

Season 5: Apocalypse Vegetables (2014)

Broadcast

• Portugal: RTP2 (September, 2012); Canal Panda (October, 2012); RTP1 (2016)
• US: YouTube, Kabillion (April, 2013); Qubo (April, 2016)
• South Africa: eToonz (2018)

Reception

Common Sense Media gave the series an extremely positive review, rating it at five stars and praising it for its lack of extreme violence and promotion of healthy eating like Clara in Foodland.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hulu Buys Kids' Nutrition Series. License Magazine. 7 May 2012.
2. Web site: Nutri Ventures (review). Commonsensemedia. 7 May 2008.