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May 2023
25m 16s

BetterBrand

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Aimee Yang, BetterBrand’s founder and CEO, discusses her innovative food start-up that uses “grain-changing technology” and plant-based ingredients to provide healthy, delicious alternatives to carbohydrate-heavy foods such as bagels.

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