Milkify offers mothers an easy and safe way to freeze-dry their breast milk, extending the life of this valuable nutritional source by up to three years. Freeze-dried breast milk powder is easy to use when parents are on the go, requires no refrigeration, and prevents the breakdown of nutrients from long-term freezer storage. Milkify will be featured in Shark Tank on April 7th.

Houston, TX March 31, 2023 –(PR.com)– A young mother works diligently to express, freeze and store breast milk for her baby to build a supply for when she returns to work. After three months of pumping, she finally thaws the milk and gives the first bottle, but her child spits it out and refuses to drink it. Due to high levels of lipase or other factors affecting their taste during freezer storage, their milk has essentially become unusable. Months of work was in vain, mom and baby are both in tears.

This frustrating scenario is one of many that keep happening to new moms. Houston-based Milkify, the first human milk freeze-drying service available directly to consumers, solves this problem and many others. Milkify’s solution is so groundbreaking that it will be featured on ABC’s hit show Shark Tank on April 7th.

Berkley Luck, Ph.D., molecular biologist, new mom and founder of Milkify, says the most rewarding part of her job is hearing stories like this — and then hearing from the same mom that her baby happily swallowed 8 ounces of ice cream -dried breast milk. The same milk that baby previously rejected now has new life thanks to Milkify’s patent-pending process. This is a recent story from one of their first clients here in Houston.

“My goal in founding Milkify was to enable mothers to preserve the nutritional value of their breast milk over the long term,” says Luck. “It was only after starting Milkify that I realized the many other life-changing benefits of our freeze-drying process, including saving breast milk that is high in lipase. Our unique facility and strict…