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From the first experiments in the lab to the moment a consumer discovers a new favorite snack, our goal is to transform breakthrough thinking into something people genuinely love. ChoViva is the result of that journey — proof that when science, taste, and purpose come together, innovation can turn into a real consumer love story.\n\n### The Spark\nEvery meaningful food innovation begins with curiosity. For us, it started with a simple but powerful question: Can the chocolate experience be reimagined?\n\nChocolate is one of the world’s most beloved indulgences, yet the cocoa supply chain faces increasing challenges — from climate pressures and crop volatility to growing global demand. Instead of asking how to slightly improve chocolate, our team asked a much bigger question: What actually creates the sensory experience people love about chocolate?\n\nIs it the cocoa bean itself — or the combination of roasting, fermentation, and complex flavor chemistry that ultimately delivers the deep, chocolatey taste we crave?\n\nA key insight helped guide our thinking: around 80% of chocolate’s flavor is created during the production process — not by the cocoa bean itself. This opened the door to a new possibility. If the characteristic flavor of chocolate largely emerges through fermentation, roasting, and processing, could those same principles be applied to other ingredients?\n\nAt the same time, we saw an opportunity to create something more resilient: a new way of producing chocolatey indulgence using ingredients that can be sourced locally and sustainably. That question sparked years of research and experimentation.\n\n### The Breakthrough\nTurning this idea into something delicious required persistence, scientific curiosity, and an uncompromising focus on taste. The breakthrough came when our team discovered that sunflower seeds could serve as the foundation for creating chocolate-like flavor profiles.\n\nBy applying the same principles that shape chocolate’s flavor — fermentation, roasting, and complex flavor chemistry — our researchers discovered that humble sunflower seeds could unlock remarkably similar chocolatey notes.\n\nThrough carefully developed fermentation and roasting processes, sunflower seeds reveal the rich aroma, depth, and indulgent taste people associate with chocolate. By refining these techniques, our team was able to recreate the characteristic chocolatey experience — without relying on cocoa.\n\nThe result is **ChoViva — pure chocolatey indulgence made from sunflower seeds.** What surprises most people is the taste: smooth, rich and unmistakably chocolatey, delivering the indulgent experience consumers expect from chocolate.\n\nThis innovative ingredient approach opens new possibilities for creating chocolatey products using sunflower seeds and 100% natural ingredients. Because sunflower seeds can be grown locally and without deforestation, the supply chains are significantly shorter. As a result, ChoViva generates around 80% less CO₂ emissions compared to traditional cocoa-based chocolate.\n\nWhat began as a bold idea in the lab has quickly become a proven ingredient platform. Today, ChoViva is already used in more than 120 product launches across 10 countries, demonstrating that next-generation chocolate innovation can scale from breakthrough science to real products consumers love.\n\nShorter supply chains, regionally grown ingredients, and a significantly lower CO₂ footprint make ChoViva a more resilient and future-oriented way of creating chocolatey indulgence.\n\n### The Love Story\nBut innovation only truly matters when people fall in love with it. A breakthrough in the lab is just the beginning — the real test comes when someone takes a bite.\n\nToday, ChoViva is inspiring a growing number of snacks and confectionery products that surprise and delight consumers. What they experience first is the familiar joy of chocolatey indulgence — rich flavor, satisfying texture, and the comforting taste they know and love. 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Developed by the food innovation company Planet A Foods, ChoViva was created to redefine what a cocoa-free chocolate alternative can be. Not by compromising on indulgence, but by elevating it.\n\nIndulgence is emotional. It’s the creamy melt on your tongue, the roasted depth, the subtle sweetness that unfolds layer by layer. That experience cannot be sacrificed. That’s why ChoViva is built around flavor authority and ingredient innovation — not around substitution.\n\nChoViva is not positioned as a replacement.\nChoViva is designed as a new chocolate experience made without cocoa — and built to truly satisfy.\n\n### Taste the Future of Cocoa-Free Indulgence\nWhen you bite into products made with ChoViva, such as Sun Rice ChoViva Crunchy Milk + Flakes, you discover what a cocoa-free chocolate alternative can really be. Crunchy cornflakes meet airy puffed rice and smooth milk cream filling, all coated in ChoViva’s creamy, chocolate-like layer. The snap feels familiar. The melt is indulgent. The flavor delivers caramel leading into gentle roastiness with nutty, malty notes, followed by a smooth, creamy sweetness. And yet, there is no cocoa involved.\n\nChoViva is made from carefully selected sunflower seeds and transformed through a fermentation like process followed by roasting. This proprietary process, developed by Planet A Foods, builds depth and aromatic complexity. The result is a layered flavor profile that resembles classic chocolate while establishing a distinctive ChoViva signature.\n\nThe outcome is a cocoa-free chocolate alternative that feels familiar, yet represents a completely new origin story rooted in European ingredient innovation.\n\n### Engineering Flavor: The ChoViva Taste System\nCreating a cocoa-free chocolate alternative that competes with traditional chocolate requires structure, science and sensory mastery.\n\nThat is why ChoViva follows a clearly defined taste architecture. To guide flavor refinement, the teams behind ChoViva developed an internal Flavor Wheel that maps every nuance of the sensory experience. Creaminess must feel smooth and rounded. Roasted notes must create depth without harsh bitterness. Sweetness must support complexity rather than overpower it. The aftertaste must remain clean and inviting.\n\nEvery batch of ChoViva is evaluated against this sensory framework to ensure consistency and continuous improvement. This is how ChoViva builds taste authority in an emerging category. It is not enough to be cocoa-free. ChoViva must deliver indulgence.\n\n### From Sunflower Seeds to Chocolate-Like Indulgence\nWhat makes ChoViva a credible cocoa-free chocolate alternative is ingredient transformation.\n\nChoViva begins with high-quality sunflower seeds sourced in Europe. In the first step of our process we create the foundation for aroma formation, shaping depth, roundness and complexity.  The subsequent roasting process then unlocks gently caramelized and toasted notes, the recognizable chocolate-like depth and aroma. Texture engineering ensures a smooth melt and satisfying mouthfeel comparable to conventional chocolate.\n\nThe outcome is a full-bodied, chocolate-like experience made entirely without cocoa beans.\n\nThis is not imitation. It is flavor creation through food science and ingredient innovation. ChoViva stands for a new way of creating chocolate indulgence — one that relies on fermentation expertise and precision roasting rather than cocoa dependency.\n\n### Why Taste Leads the ChoViva Category\nConsumers do not choose chocolate because it is traditional. They choose it because it tastes amazing.\n\nThat is why ChoViva puts taste first.\n\nSustainability and supply chain resilience are important drivers behind the development of cocoa-free chocolate alternatives. But none of these factors can replace indulgence. If a cocoa-free chocolate alternative does not deliver joy, it will not win.\n\nChoViva exists to prove that indulgence and innovation can coexist. When someone takes a bite and pauses — surprised that something made from sunflower seeds can deliver such a rich, creamy and roasted profile — that is the moment ChoViva becomes more than a concept. It becomes a craving.\n\n### The Future of Chocolate, Defined by ChoViva\nA cocoa-free chocolate alternative represents more than a new ingredient. It represents a shift in how chocolate experiences can be created in Europe and beyond.\n\nChoViva stands at the forefront of this shift. Developed by Planet A Foods and trusted by forward-thinking brands, ChoViva combines fermentation expertise, precision roasting and uncompromising taste performance.\n\nBecause the future of chocolate is not defined by what it removes.\nIt is defined by what it delivers.\n\nChoViva delivers taste.\nChoViva delivers texture.\nChoViva delivers the wow moment.\n\nAnd when done right, a cocoa-free chocolate alternative tastes incredible.","A cocoa-free chocolate alternative only works if it delivers one thing first: incredible taste. 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