Sprinkk

Sprinkk is a Nebraska-based confectionery product development and contract manufacturing company founded by veteran food scientist and confectionery expert Tessa Porter. The company was established with a mission to lower the barriers to candy innovation and manufacturing, making it accessible for startups, emerging brands, ingredient companies, and supplement manufacturers alike. Sprinkk specializes in a broad range of confectionery formats including gummies, fruit snacks, hard candy, fruit chews, caramels, gummy vitamins, lozenges, mints, and taffy. Its core service offering spans the full product lifecycle — from initial concept and formulation design through process engineering, scale-up assistance, and contract manufacturing. The company operates its own flexible manufacturing facility, described as a playground for confectionery innovation. This facility supports both starch-moulded and starchless-moulded gummy production, hard candy, fruit chews, and custom processes tailored to client needs. The flexible setup is intentionally designed to accommodate small production runs, allowing brands to validate new products or make modifications before committing to higher minimum order quantities at larger facilities. Notably, Sprinkk imposes no formal minimum order quantities, enabling clients to test as few as a single unit, though manufacturing time is charged on lower volume runs. This approach is designed to encourage experimentation and iteration without the financial risk typically associated with new product launches. On the development side, Sprinkk offers comprehensive formulation and process design services. The team works directly with clients to define the sensory experience of a product — taste, texture, color, and shape — and produces lab samples for client review. All technical documentation, including manufacturing instructions, is provided to the client upon project completion, with no proprietary lockout on process knowledge. Project timelines vary by complexity, ranging from under 90 days for straightforward projects to over a year for research-intensive development. The company has demonstrated the ability to move a concept from idea to production in as few as 40 days. Sprinkk also serves the functional and nutraceutical segment, having developed confectionery-based supplement products such as gummies and chews for supplement brands and ingredient companies. In addition to commercial services, Sprinkk offers limited educational outreach programs for schools in the Omaha, Albion, and surrounding Nebraska areas, bringing candy science demonstrations into classrooms to inspire interest in food science and chemistry among younger audiences.