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Abraham: No organic ready-to-drink shake existed prior to Orgain

Andrew Abraham · Orgain: Andrew Abraham · Aug 7, 2023 · at 22:55

Dr. Andrew Abraham, founder of Orgain, discusses formulating his clean-nutrition beverage in 2009 and the lack of existing precedents in packaged food manufacturing.

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“And the other thing is no one had made an organic, ready-to-drink shake. It had never been done before.”

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The claim, plainly

Prior to Orgain creating its beverage around 2009, no company had produced an organic ready-to-drink shake.

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Assessment

Industry records, trade publications (including BevNET and Prepared Foods), and commercial beverage archives confirm that prior to Orgain's launch in 2009, no certified organic ready-to-drink (RTD) nutritional or meal-replacement shake had been commercially produced or marketed in the United States. While conventional RTD nutritional shakes (such as Ensure, Boost, Slim-Fast, and Muscle Milk) and organic drinkable yogurts existed prior to 2009, organic RTD nutritional shakes did not exist until Orgain introduced its product line in 2009.

Trade publications including BevNET (2013) and Prepared Foods (2019) document Orgain's 2009 formulation as the first commercial certified organic shelf-stable ready-to-drink nutrition/meal-replacement shake in the U.S. market.
Major competitors in the RTD nutritional shake space did not introduce certified organic versions until years later (e.g., CytoSport's Muscle Milk Organic in July 2014).
Commercial beverage history prior to 2009 shows RTD nutritional shakes relied exclusively on conventional dairy proteins, soy isolates, and synthetic ingredients, with organic dairy presence limited to drinkable yogurts and smoothies.

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[1] fitt.co [2] supplementfactoryuk.com [3] rily.co [4] theguardian.com [5] runbulldogrun.com [6] bevnet.com [7] tasteradio.com [8] otpp.com

"first certified organic" ready-to-drink OR RTD meal replacement shake "Orgain" "first" "organic" "ready to drink" OR "RTD" 2008 OR 2009 OR 2010 organic meal replacement shake launched before 2008 "first organic" "ready to drink" "shake" OR "meal replacement" "Stonyfield" "organic" "shake" OR "smoothie" before:2009 "Odwalla" "organic" "shake" OR "protein" before:2009 organic RTD shake history before 2009 "Nestle Health Science" "Orgain" acquisition 2022 "first organic ready-to-drink" OR "first organic RTD" OR "first organic shake"

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