Zinca Inc. designs food and health solutions for individuals living with metabolic conditions and unique nutritional requirements — built on lived experience, clinical evidence, and uncompromising production standards.
Wendy Ywan spent nearly a decade recovering from a severe metabolic illness. Today she leads Zinca with a simple commitment: build the products she once needed, for everyone facing the same fight.
Every Zinca formulation is built against four non-negotiable design principles — starting with the specific needs of the people we are designing for, never with a generic wellness target.
We partner with manufacturers, researchers, health institutions, and strategic investors who share our commitment to metabolic-health populations and special-needs nutrition.
Free patient education and a Telegram support assistant for the Wilson disease community — built on peer-reviewed evidence, opened to anyone who needs it.
We are not a concept. Two streams of work are active right now — each chosen to serve people we already know, in communities we already work with.
Zinca's work is grounded in years of central-kitchen and food-preparation experience with a special-needs community of more than twenty thousand families — first-hand understanding of what actually lands on real tables, for people whose metabolic needs are not typical.
A series of public health-education programs aimed at the metabolic-health population — expanding access to clear, accurate, lived-in information.
A public-interest platform that opens patient education, evidence-informed resources, and practical tools for rare disease and long-term health communities.
Wilson disease patients, families, and friends can scan a QR code to add the OpenZinca Telegram bot and ask general educational questions about Wilson disease.
OpenZinca's first public-interest education project, built to help Wilson disease patients and families find clearer, responsible information.
Four constraints we hold ourselves to — on the product, in the lab, and in front of the communities we serve.
Manufacturers, research labs, health institutions, and strategic investors. Pick the track that matches your capability.
Bar, bite, and functional snack production capability.
University labs, dietitians, clinical nutritionists.
Hospitals, clinics, advocacy groups, user communities.
Strategic capital + capability beyond money.