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Scaling Your Healthy Food Product

Autor: Jacinta Kemboi

If you're building a better-for-you food product and you're at the point where growth is knocking (a retailer, a distributor, a co-manufacturer), this podcast is for you. Building a food business is hard, and scaling a better-for-you product brings its own technical challenges. But you shouldn't have to choose between growing your business and staying true to why you started. I'm Jacinta Kemboi, an independent food scientist with 12+ years in the food industry. I've managed products from idea to kitchen to commercial production to retail shelf, and I work closely with co-manufacturers to get products commercialized the right way. On...

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  1. Food Science as a Calling: Why Your Gift Isn't an Accident (Guest on Yenga's Corner) – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  2. Would You Say Yes If a Retailer Called Today? Why You Need a Plant Trial First – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  3. 3 Trade Show Lessons I Brought Back From CHFA (And How You Can Use Them) – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  4. CHFA or Trade Show Survival Guide: What to Ask Retailers, Ingredient Suppliers & Co-Mans (So You Don't Waste 6 Months) – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  5. Founder Spotlight: Carobium — How Kadeem Built a Healthier Hot Chocolate Alternative – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  6. Pause… Are You Structurally Retail-Ready? (The ETS Checklist) – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  7. Focus Groups on a Budget: How Food Entrepreneurs Can Get Real Feedback Without a Sensory Lab – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  8. What I Wished I Knew Before Starting My Food Business Series- With Betsy A Gluten Free Food Business Founder – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  9. Why You Need to Be a Proactive Food Founder — How to Build Toward Retail Instead of Reacting to It Runtime – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  10. 3 Things Your Ingredient Supplier Could be Doing For You- A Kombucha Case Study – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  11. Believing in Your Product (And What to Focus On to Stay the Course) – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  12. 4 Things I'm Tracking Right Now in My Mid-Year Food Product Launch Strategy – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  13. Why Your Emerging Food Brand Should Sign Up for that Contest – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  14. Expert Segment: How to Build a Brand that Stands Out — with Katie Mleziva – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  15. When Is the Right Time to Move from a Commercial Kitchen to Co-Manufacturing? – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  16. How Do You Get Your Product OFF the Shelf — Not Just Onto It? – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  17. Which Product Goes First? The Strategy That Can Save (or Sink) Your Food Brand – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  18. Keep Going — The Journey Is Worth It – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  19. Maximize Your Food Product's Potential with Multifunctional Ingredients – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  20. Why Food Founders Are Losing Money on Shelf Life Testing (And How to Fix It) – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  21. Your Margin Will Always Go Down — Here's How to Protect It from Day One – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  22. What a plant trial actually is — and why skipping it is the most expensive shortcut in food – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  23. Who the Emerging Food Business Hub Is For (And Who It Is Not For) – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  24. Why Trying to Figure This out Alone is Slowing Your Food Business Down – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  25. If I Had to Scale a Food Product in 2026 Here Is Exactly What I Would Do – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  26. What Actually Makes a Food Product Retail Ready (Most Founders Get This Wrong) – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  27. Why Most Food Founders Stay Stuck (Even When Their Product Is Good) – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  28. Why Shelf Life Is the Most Overlooked Risk in Scaling a Food Business – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  29. Why Having a Secondary Supplier Is No Longer a Nice-to-Have — It's a Must-Have – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product
  30. Behind the Scenes of Scaling a Food Business: The Stage No One Prepares You For – Scaling Your Healthy Food Product