The organic apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in Chloe Burns’ case.

The six-year-old, who is daughter to nutritional therapist and Royal Gazette columnist Catherine Burns, will be hosting a pop-up snack stall at locations around Hamilton this week, boasting a number of healthy, gluten and dairy free treats.

The Saltus student is also making father Chris Burns, an organiser and fundraiser for the annual Catlin End to End event, proud by donating her profits to two great local charities: Open Airways and SPCA.

Chloe admitted the pop-up stall was all her idea, but she needed her parents help to bring the plan to fruition.

“I got the idea from Ashley’s Lemonade stand and wanted to do that, but mommy told me I should do something else,” the youngster said.

“Then I wanted to do a smoothies stand, but we came up with the idea of doing a snack stall instead because it’s something different.”

Over the last week they prepared by making signs and obtaining the proper permits and certificates from the Corporation of Hamilton and Department of Environmental Health.

This weekend the Burns family also planned to spend hours making food for their stall, which will include organic popcorn, banana bread, brownies, Holy Crap cookies, energy bites (made with chocolate, caramel and coconut), trail mix and parfait.

Mrs Burns said they deliberately picked snack items that would pack more nutrition than a typical chocolate bar or bag of chips.

The nutritionist said: “Typically when people reach for a snack they reach for a quick fix and get something that is sweet and going to give them energy and make them feel better quickly.

“But that sugar high always leads to a sugar low and when you get that you end up reaching for another snack and then another.

“So the kind of snacks Chloe is selling will contain extra protein and fibre so you get a more sustained energy release and they will leave people feeling satisfied for longer.”

The best thing about these snacks is they all get Chloe’s seal of approval for taste.

“I love all these things and have tried them before,” she said.

The primary schooler said she was excited to open her snack stall to the public and wants to raise as much money as possible for her two favourite charities.

She said: “I like these charities because they help people and one of them helps animals. I love animals and the lady [Liz Boden] who runs Open Airways is a friend of ours, that’s why I picked those two.”

Mrs Burns said her daughter has always had a soft spot for those in need.

Last year she watched a World Wildlife Fund commercial showing how tigers were becoming extinct; Chloe sprang into action by adopting a tiger named Camrita.

Mr Burns said it was “a proud feeling” watching her willingness to give back.

“What I find interesting about this is having grown up here we did very similar things,” he said. “We had a grapefruit tree in our garden and I had a grapefruit stand, so it’s funny seeing my daughter doing something similar.”

Although some people might be sceptical to try healthy snack options, Chloe and her younger sister Belle have grown up with them.

She said: “I would say give it a try and see if they like it and if some people haven’t tried healthy foods it might bring lots of taste to their tongue and they might love the snacks I make.

“Lots of people are going to come, I can tell. I have already given out 54 flyers and raised $101 from people [at Bowring Marsh].”

Although the organic ingredients themselves are fairly expensive, most of the baked goods and snacks will be priced at an affordable $2 or $3.

Chloe’s Pop-Up Snack Stand will be set up outside The Royal Gazette office on Par-la-Ville, Hamilton today from noon until 2pm.

Tomorrow it will be on the City Hall steps; Wednesday it will be outside Bermuda Podiatry Centre; Thursday, it will be set up at the Pop-Up Playroom at the National Sports Centre; while on Friday it will be back at City Hall.

It will be set up at those locations from noon until 2pm all days except Thursday, when it will be set up from 9.30am until 11.30am.