I didn't set out to start a fiber company. Honestly, if you'd told me in 1995 that I'd one day be talking publicly about digestive health, I probably would've laughed.

But here's the thing: I raised three kids in Berkeley while working full-time, and despite my best intentions, we didn't always eat perfectly. Some nights were takeout. Some mornings were cereal bars in the car. And slowly, I noticed—my digestion wasn't what it used to be.

I tried the typical drugstore options. The orange powders that tasted like sandy guilt. The capsules you had to take by the handful. The gummies that were basically candy with a side of fiber. Nothing felt right. Everything felt like a compromise.

Then a friend—a nutritionist who'd been researching functional fibers—told me about soluble corn fiber. One ingredient. Nothing added. Just purified fiber from corn that actually dissolved without turning my coffee into sludge.

I ordered a bag. I tried it. And thirty years later, I'm still using it.

It's not flashy. It doesn't promise to transform your life or cure anything. It just does the quiet, essential work that fiber is supposed to do—help your body process food the way it was designed to, back before everything we ate came in a pouch or a box.

When my kids got older and started living on their own, I'd send them home with a jar. When friends complained about digestion issues, I'd share mine. Eventually, people started asking where they could buy it themselves.

So I started Krista's Pantry—not because the world needed another wellness brand, but because sometimes the simplest solutions are the hardest to find. And if this one jar can make your mornings a little easier, your digestion a little gentler, and your life a little less complicated, then I'll consider that time well spent.