About Ample
We believe that health, convenience, and great taste shouldn't be mutually exclusive. That’s why we created Ample: a satisfying, real-food meal in a bottle that combines optimal nutrition and great taste in a convenient format you can take anywhere. Using high-quality ingredients backed by sound science, our three formulas deliver a fast, easy solution for eating well on your busiest days and everywhere in between.
Our Mission: To Simplify Eating Well
Our mission is to make optimal nutrition simple and accessible, so people everywhere can lead healthier, more productive lives. To accomplish that goal, we’re setting a new standard for what it means to be a health food company—offering products that are a direct reflection of proper science and are constantly evolving to align with the latest nutritional research and changing consumer needs.
Our ultimate goal is to help our customers eat, work, and live better—anytime, anywhere, and for years to come. By focusing on optimal nutrition and leveling up ingredient quality, we hope to drive massive change in the food industry, making healthy eating attainable and more convenient for everyone on the planet.
Our Approach to Optimal Nutrition
Every day, we support our mission by taking a thoughtful approach to creating the best, most nutritious meal replacements on the market today.
1. DEFINE WHAT "HEALTHY" MEANS
In the crowded health and convenience foods markets, "healthy" is a subjective and often misleading term. Based on sound nutritional science, we developed our own definition for "healthy" to allow us to create exceptional products that actually deliver on that promise.
To us, a healthy diet:
- Keeps you energized and satisfied without digestive discomfort
- Helps you maintain a body composition that keeps you looking, feeling, and performing optimally
- Is easy to sustain for long term health benefits
Using this definition as our foundation, we've developed two distinct formulas that make achieving optimal nutrition easy and convenient—helping you eat and live better, now and for years to come.
2. CREATE PRODUCTS FOUNDED IN SOUND NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE
We partner with nutrition researchers and food scientists to ensure that our formulas are rooted in sound nutritional science—designing our unique macronutrient, micronutrient, and ingredient strategies around key considerations like our diet's effect on inflammation, the gut microbiome, and hormone levels. To ensure nutrient density, we use high-quality ingredients from non-GMO, real-food sources—delivering a healthy meal replacement drink that is abundant in nutritious fats, complete protein, fiber, and contains 4 grams or less of sugar per 400-calorie meal.
3. NEVER COMPROMISE ON TASTE
We believe that consumers shouldn’t have to choose between great taste and optimal nutrition. We’ve continuously refined our formulas over the last few years to ensure that we’re not only hitting the mark for nutrition, we’re delivering healthy products that taste great—and that our customers love. Guided by our own high standards for taste and nutrition through every product iteration, we’ve created three delicious Ample formulas using the best quality ingredients nature has to offer and without any artificial flavors or sugar alcohols.
4. PROVIDE SOLUTIONS FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF DIETARY NEEDS
While there are certain foundational nutrition principles we can rely on, we believe that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to a healthy diet. Instead, what we eat should be tailored to our unique lifestyles and biochemistries.
We offer Ample Original, and Ample Recover with unique and carefully-considered macronutrient profiles and ingredient lists to accomplish unique metabolic responses for both low- and high-activity times of the day.
5. STRIVING FOR CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT
Researchers have only scratched the surface in understanding how each of our bodies are affected by food. As research evolves, new discoveries are made, and consumer habits change, we’ll continue to iterate and improve our formulas to remain aligned with the latest advances in nutrition science.
By striving for constant improvement in the products we sell and how we serve our customers, we can continue to deliver what we believe are the best meal replacement drinks on the market and accomplish our mission of making optimal nutrition simple and accessible for all.
Our Story
“After graduating with a biology degree and starting a CrossFit gym in 2011, it was easy for me to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I coached similarly-minded people on health for a living and read nutrition medical journals just for fun.
But after creating a healthcare startup in 2014, my intention to eat well was quickly buried by the grim reality of my busy work schedule. Instantly, my free time vanished as I worked to get my business off the ground, and it became difficult to carve out time for my healthy diet. Many of my friends and housemates had a similar problem, and their health suffered as a result.
Some resorted to convenient snacks or the most-hyped meal replacement drinks, powders, or bars—without understanding the types and quality of ingredients, caloric makeup, and overall nutrition they were actually putting into their bodies.
But the reality is, even if we know HOW to eat, almost none of us can afford to spend half of our time, energy, or paychecks optimizing our health. That’s when the idea for Ample was born.
I set out to create a quick, healthy meal that solved my friends' problems—starting by mixing powders in my own kitchen. After my early versions of Ample received a positive reception, I launched an Indiegogo campaign to turn my vision into a viable business—which soon became the top food and beverage campaign of its time.
This allowed me to recruit a fantastic team and since then, Ample has grown significantly, receiving several million in funding from angel investors and reputable VC firms. We've launched multiple incredible products and impacted thousands of lives—with the customer reviews and sales numbers to prove it!
But we're just getting started on our mission to simplify optimal nutrition and are excited for the bright future ahead of us. In the next couple decades, there will be a ton of changes happening in the food industry and we're excited to help set the standard for what it means to be a modern health food company.”
Connor Young,
Ample Foods Founder, CEO
Ample Foods Founder, CEO
Supporting our Community
At Ample, we believe it's important to make a positive impact on the environment around us and the communities we're a part of. That's why we donate any unused Ample meals to organizations in need, like shelters and food banks. Here are a few of the causes we support:
FEATURED STORY:
ODYSSEY HOUSE NYC
“We’re so appreciative of the product you donated to our organization over the summer. The drinks were a hit and our tenants continue to ask for them even though we don’t have any left. One of our tenants stated that he hadn’t felt that strong since before his HIV diagnosis in the early 1990s and that he’s inspired that feeling better is actually possible. His doctor told him his counts look impressive and to ‘keep doing what you’re doing’. I think we all know that real food is the best medicine! He asks me weekly for more Ample.”
-TARA A. MARDIGAN, MS, MPH, RD, LDN
Wellness Coordinator/Nutritionist. Odyssey House NYC
Committed to Sustainability
We care deeply about the environment, with sustainability efforts that range from how we package and ship our products to what ingredients and suppliers we use. We are always looking for opportunities to reduce our environmental impact, with our current efforts listed below:
Recylable Bottles
- Our PET bottles are made from the most recyclable type of plastic. Nearly all recycling centers are capable of recycling this type of plastic.
- Our HDPE caps are also highly recyclable and made from post-consumer recycled materials.
Printed Materials
- FSC Certified Paper
- Carbon neutral printing presses (HP Indigo)
- Inks contain no heavy metals, aromatic amines, or other environmentally harmful substances (HP ElectroInk)
Shipping Boxes
- 100% post-consumer recycled materials
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) certified
Investors
We’re proud to partner with reputable investment firms and private investors to help accelerate our growth. For investment inquiries, contact us at: invest@amplemeal.com
