Building a Clean-Label Tart Cherry Beverage with No Natural Flavors and No Added Sugar in the Midst of a Booming Ingredient Trend
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Caitlin Bricker interviews Lindsey Fredrick about her journey in creating a clean-label tart cherry beverage with minimal ingredients and the challenges she faced in the CPG industry.
In this episode of the Startup CPG Podcast, host Caitlin Bricker sits down with Lindsey Fredrick, founder of Tart, a healthy lifestyle beverage built around tart cherry and house-made mineral water — just five organic ingredients, with zero natural flavors and no added sugar. Lindsey's path into CPG started in her college kitchen, where she was managing 35 different food allergies and searching for nutrient-dense foods she could actually eat and enjoy. What began as a personal recipe (and a popular hangover cure among her college friends) turned into a canned RTD launched on January 1st of this year — and within two weeks, Tart had a booth in the Startup CPG section at Winter Fancy Food Show. Lindsey walked in with zero expectations and no formal CPG background, and walked out having handed out a thousand samples and met buyers across the board. Caitlin and Lindsey dig into the packaging pivot that led to Tart's now-iconic red can, why organic certification became an unexpected retail differentiator, and Lindsey's refreshingly minimal approach to trade show booths and retail activations — proof that when the product is strong, it doesn't need much dressing up. Listen in as they…
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