Confidential client
Cacao-free Chocolate
End to end product innovation
CHALLENGE
Create a chocolate bar without using cocoa, driven by sustainability concerns and the current issues facing the global cocoa industry.
APPROACH
We used residual ingredients from other industries and innovative ingredients to recreate the cocoa experience. For this, we used our Synthesis module, which was crucial for elevating, optimizing and exploring at the same time.
REsult
We successfully developed a chocolate that mimics a 50% cocoa profile. Although it does not possess all the properties of traditional chocolate, this achievement represents a significant advancement in producing sustainable alternatives to conventional chocolate.
The old fashioned way
It takes a long time to replace ingredients and see how they behave. Only a few companies have been able to come up with this approach and there is none that’s using the proven methods we have been implementing.
The NotCo way
The ability to not only research on cocoa replacements, but to explore, optimize and use novel ingredients that impact texture and flavor.
