Interview

March 6, 2020

YFood: Germany's fast-growing competitor to Huel and Soylent

Meal replacement brand YFood was boosted by a hit TV show appearance and winning a big-name investor


YFood Team

Before friends Noel Bollmann and Ben Kremer started YFood in 2017, they didn’t know much about food science. All they knew was that they were fed up with their finance careers and wanted to start their own project.

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