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Melissa Bermudez

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
49 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

Hi, Guy.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

Hi, Jonah.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

My name is Melissa Bermudez, and I'm calling from Newburyport, Massachusetts.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

I'm the co-founder and CEO of Unrefined Foods.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

We make mornings easier for busy families with farm-to-freezer nutrition they can trust.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

Our frozen muffins are just like homemade, but better, loaded with stone-milled organic grains, real fruits and veggies, just a little maple syrup, and they're ready to eat.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

So there are not many frozen muffins in the grocery store that are ready to eat.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

So we make everything with 100% organic stone milled grains.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

So that means we're truly taking a wheat berry, which in our opinion is the original superfood, milling it, keeping all the nutrition and flavor of the entire grain intact, and taking that fresh flour,

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

putting it in our muffins and a ton of other really great ingredients you'd use at home if you were trying to make power muffins like olive oil, again, real fruits and veggies, maple syrup, whole milk, eggs.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

And unbelievably, there's nothing else like it in the grocery store that we are aware of.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

Yeah, we started just over a year ago.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

We launched right around the holidays 2024, all direct to consumer and farmers markets.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

And we've been in wholesale for about eight months now.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

Exactly.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

Yep.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

Small, independent retailers.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

We're really close to Boston, so there's a lot of home delivery services that we also sell to.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

And that's really how we want to grow.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

We did direct-to-consumer as a frozen product.

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