Cocoa powder

Our cocoa powder range varies in taste from fruity natural to bitter, and in color from vibrant red to dark brown or black cocoa powder. This allows you to create highly differentiated end products that meet the needs of both individual customers and vast market segments.

Close up shot of cocoa in powder and liquid form

Dutched

Our expertise in Dutching (alkalization) allows us to finetune the taste and color of a cocoa powder to the exact standards for every type of recipe.

Natural

Produced without alkalization, a natural cocoa powder is optimal for clean label requirements.

Defatted

For recipes requiring fat reduction, our defatted cocoa powders support specific nutritional profile needs without compromising on taste or color.

High Fat

A cocoa powder with 22-24% fat content providing superior taste and color impact in recipes ranging from biscuits and bakery to ice cream and beverage.

Close up shot of ofi cocoa powder with no sodium added

No Added Sodium

Swapping sodium for potassium in the Dutching process allows us to create cocoa powders that support dietary sodium reduction goals, particular in bakery applications.

Single Origin

From Ghana to Indonesia, a single origin cocoa powder give recipes unique, country-specific taste profiles.

Professionals

Kitchen professionals and artisan producers now have access to a focused range of our premium deZaan cocoa ingredients in smaller pack formats.

Our promise

We always seek to find new ways to meet our customers’ needs, while never compromising on high-quality and consistency. Today, we are proud to be the partner of choice for chocolate confectionery manufacturers and kitchen professionals around the world.

Bringing precision and passion to every part of the cocoa process, we select only the finest cocoa beans, harness proprietary processing techniques and utilize our long-held knowledge to offer a complete set of cocoa ingredients to our customers.

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Press Release Nov 20, 2024

From agronomy to AI: ofi accelerates sustainability impact across global nuts supply chains

Powering beehives with AI in California, and empowering cashew farmers across Africa and Asia are just two highlights published by global ingredients leader ofi, in its latest sustainability report for its nuts business.

The annual ‘Nut Trails’ impact report¹ details progress delivered by ofi’s origin teams of agronomists and social workers, together with partners across its global almond, cashew and hazelnut operations in 2023. Notable initiatives include the KIND Almond Acres Initiative, testing regenerative agriculture practices across 500 acres in California, and expanding the deployment of AI-powered BeeHome™ technology2 to protect pollinators.

Press Release Nov 20, 2024

AtSource receives equivalence under the SAI Platform’s Farm Sustainability Assessment – FSA 3.0.

Two tiers of ofi’s sustainability management system AtSource – AtSourceV and AtSource+ – have been recognized as equivalent schemes against the Sustainability Farm Assessment FSA 3.0 from the SAI platform, obtaining the gold and silver equivalence levels respectively for its spices, cocoa, coffee, and nuts products. This achievement reiterates ofi’s commitment to sustainability and to customers in their journey towards meeting their commitments.

We are pleased to announce that AtSource+ and AtSourceV have been benchmarked as equivalent schemes against the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform’s Farm Sustainability Assessment scheme – FSA Version 3.0, obtaining the highest-level equivalence for the AtSource+ tier¹.

The SAI Platform's Farm Sustainability Assessment FSA 3.0 provides a widely recognized framework to assess, improve, and validate on-farm sustainability in agricultural supply chains.

Following the benchmarking results, the AtSource system has achieved:

FSA Gold level equivalent for the AtSource+ tier, being the highest-level recognition and confirming best-in-class sustainable practices for farms in AtSource+ supply chains, and their commitment to high environmental and social responsibility standards.
FSA Silver level equivalent for the AtSourceV tier, confirming farms are meeting a well-defined standard of responsible agricultural practices. This includes good environmental stewardship, respect for labor rights, and safe working conditions.

Articles Nov 14, 2024

Rishi Kalra, Executive Director and Group CFO at ofi quoted in Financial Times curtain raiser article ahead of COP 16

For Olam Food Ingredients, one of the world’s biggest suppliers of food and drink ingredients, the alarm rang with the bees.

As one of the world’s largest almond growers, OFI says it spends between $8mn and $11mn a year on honeybees needed to pollinate almond trees. Despite this, productivity on the farms started to decline “because the bees were stressed by their industrialised environment”, says Rishi Kalra, executive director and group chief financial officer. “So, we worked with partners to create natural habitats for bees on our farms and reduce their exposure to agrichemicals. What we saw was that productivity steadily increased.”