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Tristan Pollock@writerpollock · EIR/Venture Partner @ 500 Startups
Hey there PH family, I wanted to introduce the community to Thistle Baby food meal kits - a new subscription-based product line from the folks that brought you Thistle - a healthy, organic prepared meal delivery service. The idea is simple - each week Thistle Baby (i) develops delicious and nutritious recipes, (ii) sources ingredients, chops, portions, an… See more
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Can Comertoglu@cancom10 · Product @OneDrive (prev: Vimeo, Amzn)
@writerpollock Yes, this is super, super interesting. One question I always have is: where do you source the recipes from? A lot of new parents I know are obsessed about "doing the right thing", but in baby-sphere there's so much "fake truths" that's accessible online that often these folks go back to printed word (which likely contains out-of-date informati… See more
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Shiri Avnery@shiri_avnery
@cancom10 Hi Can! I'm Shiri - one of the co-founders of Thistle. As my co-founder and husband, Ashwin, mentioned, the idea came in part from this exact problem - in addition to the actual "work" of having to make the food, the research process itself was maddening with sources contradicting each other or seemingly based on little credible science. I'm a sc… See more
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Can Comertoglu@cancom10 · Product @OneDrive (prev: Vimeo, Amzn)
@shiri_avnery NEAT! One last question - I've also noticed that new parents are very worried about known _AND_ unknown allergies (my niece has severe nut allergy, everything except almonds, and my nephew of course is not allergic to anything BUT almonds!). What's some of the things you had to do given the prevalence of parents being extremely sensitive to thi… See more
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Shiri Avnery@shiri_avnery
@cancom10 Wow of course! This is definitely a concern. One thing we do to address this issue is make sure our recipes are free of all the major allergens (comprising 90% of food allergies in the US), including soy, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, dairy, eggs, and seafood (the latter three because our baby food is vegan, and all of our food, baby or adult, is also… See more
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Can Comertoglu@cancom10 · Product @OneDrive (prev: Vimeo, Amzn)
@shiri_avnery Ah that's interesting. Cool, thank you for your responses, much luck as you grow this out!
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