


In fact, the company developed more than 1,000 versions of noodles to get the right one. Normally, the company would have staged a bunch of taste tests, but due to the pandemic, Gooder Foods created an online community, shipping out thousands of small bags of noodles for people to try. There was so much lack of innovation, and we are taking a fresh look at the category.” Mac and cheese is that universal thing, but more people are thinking of food as performance and are worried about what they put in their bodies. “What has happened in food since then is leaps and bounds better. “One is 83 years old and the other one is over 30 years old,” Zeszut said. Goodles is high in protein and fiber and has 21 nutrients from organic vegetables. Goodles is going after the two oldest incumbents in the space, Kraft and Annie’s, to provide a healthy alternative that tackles both better taste and nutrition. The Naked Market flashes some new capital to create better-for-you food brands When Zeszut was putting the company together, she reached out about getting involved.
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Zeszut and Gadot met three years ago and bonded over Gadot’s love for mac and cheese. This is Zeszut’s fourth time at the helm, and she gathered an impressive founding team that includes Annie’s co-founder and former president Deb Churchill Luster Paul Earle, former Kraft brand executive, founder of Earle & Co and faculty member at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and actress Gal Gadot. It has been a fun opportunity to disrupt everything.” We see product differentiation and other flavors targeting adults. “One important part is that existing competitors in mac and cheese think it is for kids, and our experience and data shows that everyone likes it. “There is product and branding innovation here, too,” she added. The food is high on the list of comfort foods, but has been advertised specifically to children for decades, despite the fact that 59% of adults eat at least one noodle dish each week, Gooder Foods co-founder and CEO Jennifer Zeszut told TechCrunch. New macaroni and cheese brand Goodles launched Tuesday after its parent company, Gooder Foods, raised $6.4 million to carve out a niche in the $4.4 billion dry noodles category.
