ChoViva Butter:the smooth side of innovative food
Fats and oils from yeasts as superior ingredients – functional, customizable, and sustainable
We transform the food industry with sustainable ingredient options. We’ve started our journey with a chocolate alternative, the next step is the replacement of cocoa butter and other tropical and specialty fats. We have identified exceptional partners for this keen project: living yeast cultures. These yeasts have the amazing ability to produce any kind of fat structure and composition. Our passionate food, bio, & process engineers have developed a platform around those yeasts to provide custom fats and oils for various applications.
ChoViva Butter as Cocoa Butter Identical
ChoViva Butter is outperforming the current standard of confectionary plant fat blends – it’s not just a “Cocoa Butter Equivalent” (CBE) or a “Cocoa Butter Substitute” (CBS) but compositionally identical to conventional cocoa butter. Most importantly, ChoViva Butter offers additional solutions to procurement, product consistency and sustainability challenges associated with cocoa butter. Through ChoViva Butter, we provide countless opportunities for a more sustainable food production while delivering high-quality results.
Choviva Butter benefits for you and the planet
- CO2-reduced
- Deforestation-free
- Higher line efficiency
- Future-proofing
- Robust supply chain
- Consistent properties and composition
- Superior taste and texture
- Low price volatility
- High purity and quality
- Plant-based and vegan
- Customizable to various applications
- Local sourcing
Our technology platform for customized fats and oils: get ready for the next food innovation
What is the common biological mechanism through which plants and our yeasts produce fats? What is it that makes these fats distinct and unique? And how can we leverage the flexibility of our yeasts to create virtually any type of custom fat? Our platform provides modular solutions to each of these questions at the biological and process level. It allows us to offer high-quality and resource-friendly fats with unmatched compositional precision.
Our focus
Confectionery ingredient disruptions are our core expertise. With our Cocoa Butter Identical "ChoViva Butter" as the first product and additional, highly sought-after confectionary specialty fats in the pipeline, we are ready to deliver economical, ecological and performance-driven impact throughout the entire manufacturing process.
Our vision
Our yeast-based fats and oils are customizable. Be it to replace other conventional fats with high resource footprints like palm or animal fats, or to offer tailored solutions and cater individual product requirements. Want to learn more about the perfect match for your next food product innovation? Let’s talk!
The essence of ChoViva Butter
Yeast-derived food fats
Yeasts are talented and versatile microorganisms with a millennia-old track record of applications in food production and refining. Some of them are even capable of building fats, and all they need for their natural performance are simple and readily available nutrients. We have cultivated specific yeasts that can produce the entire spectrum of fat and oil types found throughout plants and animals. By carefully selecting the right fermentation conditions and biological stimuli, we can steer our yeasts to produce any desired type of food fat – both known and new to nature.
Precision fermentation
An ancient fermentation method, brought to the next level through state-of-the-art technology: we fine-tuned the cultivation process of our yeast to create optimal production conditions. As a living culture, yeast needs an ideal environment to thrive. By triggering the right biological functions, we can precisely control and steer the yeast’s development to produce exactly the desired product. For our ChoViva Butter, the yeasts generate a tailored fat that is compositionally identical to cocoa butter: it has the same properties, can be applied in the same way and gives confectionary products that chocolaty snap, melt, mouthfeel and velvety texture we adore. Besides quality, it also comes with a whole stack of additional benefits for procurement, applications, and the end consumers.
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