Our own factory, in Colorado
Flatiron Food Factory, our sister company, runs the US production: freeze-drying under inspection, hammer and cryogenic milling, tolling and procurement. Same owners, same building.
About us
A distributor that owns its own factory.
Gembra Health is a women-owned, WBENC-certified wholesale distributor of bovine organ powders in Loveland, Colorado. We are the customer-facing half of a two-company operation whose other half manufactures the material we sell.
Who we are
The largest US distributor of bovine organ powders.
We are a wholesale distributor of bovine organ and glandular powders, selling to supplement and nutraceutical brands, encapsulators and co-packers, pet-nutrition companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers. A first order can be 10 kg.
Women-owned and WBENC-certified
Certified by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council. If your organisation has supplier-diversity targets, we qualify, and the certification applies across both companies.
Loveland, Colorado
1510 E 11th St, Loveland, CO 80537. Domestic warehousing for faster fulfilment to US and Canadian facilities.
What sets us apart.
US distribution
Material from four continents, held in stock in Loveland, Colorado and shipped from here.
Human grade only
Never pet-downgraded material. It is the whole of what we buy and what we sell.
Your origin choice
US, New Zealand, Australian and South American material, to whichever your program needs.
Woman-owned
WBENC-certified by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council.
Where the material is made
One supplier, four continents.
Some of what we sell we make ourselves. The rest we buy from manufacturing partners we have worked with for years, and we say plainly which is which on the lot you are quoted.
Partner manufacturers overseas
Established producers in each region, supplying material we hold here in Colorado. It is why a buyer can change origin without changing supplier, and why the country on your spec is a choice rather than whatever we happen to have.
Leadership
The people behind the relationships.
In an ingredient category built on trust, buyers want to know who they are dealing with. Gembra Health and its manufacturing sister are owned by a married couple who built a food company before they built this one.
Zora
The woman-owned half of a WBENC-certified business, and the reason food safety is treated as a starting condition rather than a checkbox.
Zora grew up in the Czech Republic as the granddaughter of farmers on both sides, spending summers working the orchards and the animals. She learned to cook by walking into the garden and gathering what the meal needed. That is a long way from a bulk ingredient catalog, and it is also exactly why the material we distribute starts as food a person would eat.
Josh
The commercial side of the business, and the person most buyers end up speaking with about supply.
Josh and Zora moved their family to Colorado in 2012 after a decade abroad, and built a food company together before this one. Between them they have run allergen-controlled production for years, which is the discipline behind a plant that can run allergen-free and allergen-sensitive programs, and a certificate of analysis on every lot.
Who we work with
The buyers we are built for.
Supplement and nutraceutical brands
From a founder running a first batch to an established brand managing continuity of supply. The 10 kg minimum exists so the first group can start.
Encapsulators and co-packers
You need paperwork that is perfect every time and powder that runs clean on the line. We hold both.
Pet-nutrition brands
Clean-label pet brands whose customers read every ingredient. The material starts as human-grade food. The food we eat is what goes to our pets.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers
Raw material for pharmaceutical production that calls for freeze-dried protein, held to the same documentation and the same human-grade sourcing as everything else we ship.
Want to talk to a person rather than a form?
Call us. We are in Loveland, Colorado, on Mountain Time, and the people who answer know the catalog.