aid: before-brands
name: Before Brands
description: 'Before Brands, Inc. was a Menlo Park, California science-based food and
  nutrition company founded on Stanford allergy research by Dr. Kari Nadeau, best known
  for SpoonfulOne — a consumer early-allergen-introduction product line that blended
  sixteen commonly allergenic proteins into daily servings for infants and toddlers.
  Nestle Health Science took a minority stake plus ex-US licensing rights in 2019 and
  later absorbed the business outright. It was a consumer packaged goods company, not
  a software company: it never operated a developer program, published no API, SDK or
  webhook surface, and its own domain is now controlled by Nestle and no longer serves
  a site.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/before-brands/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-06'
modified: '2026-08-06'
tags:
- Company
- Food and Beverage
- Consumer Packaged Goods
- Nutrition
- Health
- Allergy
- Infant Nutrition
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/before-brands_stock/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/before-brands-inc.
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-06'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: Before Brands was absorbed into Nestle Health Science — beforebrands.com now
    delegates to nestle.com nameservers, resolves to the sitedetour.com parking host
    and returns 404, while spoonfulone.com 301s to nestlehealthscience.com whose
    SpoonfulOne brand page itself 301s to a generic brand index, so there is no
    company surface left to profile.
  evidence:
  - url: http://beforebrands.com/
    status: 404
  - url: https://spoonfulone.com/
    status: 301
  - url: https://www.nestlehealthscience.com/brands/spoonfulone
    status: 301
  - url: http://beforebrands.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: http://beforebrands.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/beforebrands
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-08-06'