Founder Story
I built CAVAÉ Melt because nobody built it for me.
A letter from Amanda, founder of CAVAÉ, to the women still stuck at "low normal."
My ferritin was 14 the day my doctor told me I was fine.
I was tired in a way that didn't make sense. Brain fog by 2 p.m. Hair on the bathroom floor. Out of breath walking up the stairs in my own house. I went to the doctor. They ran iron labs. And I sat in that office while a person with a medical degree looked at a number that should have been three times higher and said "you're in the normal range."
That word. Normal.
I went home and tried the pills. Ferrous sulfate first. Then bisglycinate. Then alternate-day dosing because some study somewhere said that worked better. I was constipated for weeks. Nauseous most mornings. My stomach hated me. And after months of it, my ferritin had moved almost nothing.
I want to tell you that I figured it out fast. I didn't. I spent over a year being told my labs were fine, while I felt anything but. I read research papers in bed. I joined forums. I cried in a parking lot after one appointment. I am not exaggerating that part.
Then I found out why the pills weren't working.
Your gut has a fixed number of receptors that can absorb iron. They're called DMT1 receptors. Once they're full, the rest of the iron passes straight through. It's a built-in ceiling.
That's why people switch from one iron pill to another and another and still see their numbers barely move. It's not the dose. It's not the brand. It's the route.
I sat with that for a long time. The whole iron supplement industry was selling me a category of product that, by its own mechanism, was capped at how much it could actually deliver.
I wanted something different. Something that didn't have to fight my gut to work. So I started looking.
So I built CAVAÉ Melt.
A raspberry-flavored strip that dissolves on your tongue in 30 seconds. The iron is absorbed through the oral mucosa. No gut. No DMT1 ceiling. No constipation, no nausea, no black stools.
19 milligrams of iron, as ferric saccharate, a gentle non-heme form. Plus 400 micrograms of folate, the same dose the CDC recommends for women of reproductive age. Vegan. Gluten-free. Dairy-free. Sweetened with monk fruit and stevia, no sugar.
One strip a day. 30 strips per tin. That's the whole thing.
What CAVAÉ stands for.
We don't make claims we can't back.
If the research doesn't support it, you won't see us say it. Even if it would sell more tins.
We tell women the truth about their numbers.
"Low normal" is not the same as optimal. We talk about ferritin the way it should have been talked about with you the first time.
We test our product the way you'd test it on yourself.
Every batch goes through in-house testing for purity and consistency before it reaches a customer.
A note on MTHFR
"But I have MTHFR. Can I take folic acid?"
It's the question I get more than any other. And it's a fair one. The internet has done a number on the folic acid conversation, and a lot of women come to CAVAÉ already worried.
Here's the actual answer, drawn from the CDC's own research review on MTHFR and folic acid: people with MTHFR variants can still metabolize and use folic acid. The CDC continues to recommend 400 micrograms of folic acid for women of reproductive age. That's the exact dose in CAVAÉ Melt.
I'm not asking you to take my word for it. I'm asking you to read the CDC's own guidance.
Quality & sourcing
How CAVAÉ Melt is made.
CAVAÉ Melt is manufactured to international standards in a fully credentialed facility. Here's what that means in plain language.
FDA Registered Facility
The facility is registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, meeting federal requirements for dietary supplement manufacturing.
GMP Certified
Good Manufacturing Practice certified, the international standard for consistent quality control across every batch.
WHO Standards
Manufactured in alignment with the World Health Organization's pharmaceutical quality framework.
In-House Tested
Every production batch is tested in-house for purity and consistency before it reaches our warehouse.
The promise
If your ferritin doesn't move, you don't pay.
CAVAÉ Melt comes with a 60-day results-based guarantee. If you take it as directed and your iron levels don't move, you get your money back.
That's the bet I'm making with you. I built this product to actually work. If it doesn't work for you, the policy reflects that.
One strip a day. 30 seconds. A different route entirely.
For women stuck at "low normal." Backed by a 60-day money-back guarantee.
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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. CAVAÉ is a brand of Iron Hill Holdings LLC.