A new category of food

Frozen that eats
like fresh.

Fresh From Freezer is the first premium-frozen platform powered by patented Acoustic Freezing Technology — restaurant-quality food that keeps its taste, texture and nutrition for up to 24 months. No trade-offs. No preservatives.

Fresh From Freezer branded freezer unit stocked with 5 Minute Gourmet meals, MAVKA breads, muffins, ice cream and dumplings
1,326doors live today
NPS 80+shopper satisfaction, 42% repeat
Fresh-liketaste, texture & colour preserved by the freeze
24 moshelf life without preservatives

One platform · three audiences

Whoever you are, the freezer just changed.

01Shoppers

Eat better in 5 minutes

Chef-crafted, clean-label meals and bakery that taste like they were made today — because the freeze doesn’t damage them.

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02Retailers

Turn the aisle into a destination

A premium category with premium margins, exclusive traffic, private-label upside and dramatically lower shrink.

See the economics
03Manufacturers

Retrofit your freezers

Upgrade existing blast cells to Acoustic Freezing with flexible commercial paths — from zero-CAPEX to full ownership.

See the paths

For shoppers

One meal. Four promises. No trade-offs.

You’ve always had to choose: fresh or convenient. Honest or affordable. Fresh From Freezer is the first food engineered to deliver all four at once — four promises on every pack — pioneered by 5 Minute Gourmet.

Restaurant-quality taste

Clean-label ingredients

Ready in 5 minutes

Honest price

On shelves now — and growing fast

Five Minute Gourmet meals are live and selling in real U.S. stores today. MavKa heritage breads, protein muffins and desserts are next — arriving from our chef-led kitchens.

Walmart · 1,050 stores Meijer · 257 stores Harps · chain-wide More coming — watch this space

The science

The problem was never frozen food. It was the freezing.

Conventional freezing grows large, needle-shaped ice crystals that tear food’s cellular structure — that’s the drip loss, the mushy texture, the flat taste. Acoustic Freezing Technology freezes food at −34°C under controlled acoustic nucleation, so crystals stay microscopic and cells stay intact.

01

Chef-crafted fresh

Real recipes prepared at peak freshness — meals, breads, berries, proteins.

02

Acoustic nucleation

Controlled acoustic waves guide how ice forms at −34°C, keeping crystals smaller than the cells themselves.

03

Cells stay intact

No ruptured membranes means no drip loss — taste, texture, color and nutrition are locked in.

04

Fresh on your plate

No purge, fresh taste and texture. Minutes to serve.

Chicken breast

Under 1% purge vs ~5% for conventional IQF — with better color, taste and tenderness.

Berries

Raspberries, strawberries and blueberries defrost with a few drops of water — and look and taste fresh. Conventional: mush.

Shrimp & seafood

No purge, fresh taste and texture. Validated freeze curves per product — salmon structure closer to fresh than IQF.

Beef

Preserved up to 2 years without loss of taste, color or aroma — with elevated, tenderized texture.

Patented & validated — AFT is protected by granted patents in Europe and the United States, with international filings in preparation. Independent studies document 43% smaller ice crystals and 2–3× less cell-membrane damage versus conventional freezing. Frozen, 2023 Food Tech 500. Full technical data room available on request.

See it with your own eyes

Don’t take our word for it. Watch the freeze.

The difference between acoustic and conventional freezing isn’t a claim — it’s visible. Watch the same freeze happen both ways, side by side.

Acoustic Freezing vs Traditional (Blast / IQF) Freezing — controlled acoustic nucleation keeps ice crystals smaller than the food’s own cells, while blast freezing grows the needles that destroy them.

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Ask anything · instant answers

Questions? Our AI answers in seconds.

The science, the products, where to buy, retrofit paths, proof-of-concepts — ask in your own words and get an immediate answer, drawn from Fresh From Freezer’s published materials.

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One platform. Three brands.

Each brand leads its own shopper proposition — the Fresh From Freezer mark lends shared trust to all of them.

01

5 Minute Gourmet

The flagship — chef-crafted meals, on shelf today.

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02

REVEALED

Functional everyday nutrition — a brand of its own.

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03

MAVKA

Ukrainian Heritage Bread.

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For retailers

The frozen aisle is broken. We fix it.

You don’t need another SKU. You need a reason for shoppers to stop at the freezer — and a category that defends margin. Frozen is a $91B U.S. market headed to $163B by 2033, and no premium leader exists. That white space is structural — and it’s yours to own first.

The frozen aisle today

Commodity — undifferentiated, price-led

Chronic margin pressure

Promotional dependency

Little real innovation

With Fresh From Freezer

Exclusive traffic driver — a destination case

Premium margins on a premium category

Private-label opportunity on the same technology

New category creation — first-mover shelf position

Reduced shrink and waste

Sustainability that shows up on the P&L

U.S. supermarkets lose ~$18B a year to food waste. A 24-month, fresh-quality product with demand-matched production turns shrink reduction into hard margin. Illustrative impact for a Walmart-scale food retailer:

−2% shrink≈ $175M / yrsaved
−5% shrink≈ $440M / yrsaved
−10% shrink≈ $875M / yrsaved

Illustrative — 3.5% shrink on Walmart-scale food sales. Sources: USDA ERS, UNEP Food Waste Index 2024, FMI.

We don’t cold-call buyers. We know them.

Retail acceptance has consistently beaten forecast — 1,326 doors live now: Walmart (1,050), Meijer (257) and local stores including Harps, with NPS 80+ and 42% repeat purchase. January Walmart sell-in beat forecast; supply, not demand, is the constraint.

Behind the brand: a team that has run merchandising at the world’s largest retailer — plus chefs, food scientists and a proven R&D engine shipping 60+ SKUs.

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SB
Shawn Baldwin
President & Co-CEO
Former Walmart / Sam’s Club SVP-GMM
JT
Julia Turley
Retail Lead
25 years as a Walmart buyer
AI
Alex Isaiev
Co-CEO & Founder
Serial CPG founder · 97 countries
YK
Yevhen Klopotenko
Chef & R&D
Ukraine’s most celebrated chef

For manufacturers & processors

Retrofit your freezers. Join the Fresh From Freezer revolution.

You already have the freezers, the lines and the products. Acoustic Freezing Technology retrofits existing blast cells — unlocking premium code life and lower purge from the equipment you already run. Choose how you want to fund it; every path leads to the same technology.

Path 1

Buy Outright

Lowest per-lb conditioning rate

Fund the retrofit up front, own the economics. The lowest tolling rate from day one.

Path 2

Deposit & Reclaim

Deposit credited back against fees

Place a refundable deposit that’s credited against your conditioning fees — shared commitment, shared upside.

Path 3

Lease

No CAPEX · predictable monthly cost

We install and maintain; you lease the capability with a straightforward per-period cost.

Path 4

Fee-Only

Zero up-front · pay per pound

No CAPEX at all — pay only a conditioning fee per pound, with a path to ownership as volume accrues.

One simple lever: less up-front investment → a higher per-pound rate. Rates scale down with volume, sites and contract length — and a loyalty ladder rewards every additional freezer you convert.

60–90 days · fast path

POC at our Bentonville facility

Ship us your product samples. Our team preps, freezes and stores them for a minimum 60-day frozen hold, then evaluates side by side against your current process.

  • 1Ship samples (10–14 days)
  • 2Freeze + 60-day frozen storage
  • 3Joint performance evaluation
  • 4Results & next-steps alignment
On-site · full path

Lab freezer installed at your plant

We ship an R&D lab freezer to you and our scientists install it on-site — customized freeze curves for your exact SKUs, on your line, with your team. Typical program reaches mass-production readiness in ~8 months.

  • 1Lab setup + equipment audit
  • 2Per-SKU freeze-curve development
  • 3Performance evaluation vs current process
  • 4Retrofit decision & scale-up

Every POC is judged on the numbers: color retention, taste, texture, purge / moisture retention and shelf life — evaluated jointly by manufacturer, AFT and retail experts, with optional third-party blind testing.

Your freezers. Our physics. A new category.

Salmon processors, bakeries, protein plants and prepared-meal co-packers are already converting. Start with a 60-day proof of concept on your own products — and see the difference on your own lab bench.

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Building something bigger

One technology. Two missions.

Strengthening Ukraine

Hard-currency export revenue & a resilient food-tech industry

Jobs and demand for Ukrainian producers, chefs & partners

Building, not just surviving — wartime economic resilience

Improving American lives

Restaurant-quality nutrition that fits real budgets & schedules

Clean-label, healthier meals for time-starved families

Less household food waste — money saved every week