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Bean to Bar

Kamothe · Navi Mumbai

Cabosse

Fine flavour cacao. Three ingredients. Nothing else.

No Preservatives No Additives Product of India
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A cacao pod being cut open by hand, showing the white pulp and beans inside.
A heap of fresh cacao beans still coated in white pulp, before the ferment.
The beans come out with the pulp still on them. That pulp is what ferments, and the ferment is where most of the flavour is actually made.

01  The Pod

Every bar begins
as a pod.

cabosse n. — French, from the Old French caboce: the fruit of Theobroma cacao, cut from the trunk by hand, split, and left to ferment.

We took the name because it is the part nobody sees. By the time chocolate reaches you the pod has been opened, the beans fermented, dried, roasted, cracked and winnowed. The pod is where the flavour is decided. Everything after it is care.

In 1753 Linnaeus had to give the tree a name, and he did not choose a modest one. He called it Theobroma. Food of the gods.
Carl Linnaeus · Species Plantarum · 1753

02  The Craft

From bean to bar,
under one roof.

Nothing is outsourced. Beans arrive in jute and leave our Kamothe workshop wrapped by hand.

  1. Sorting

    Every bean is looked at. Most of the craft is deciding what not to keep.

  2. Roasting

    Heat is a question asked slowly. Ask it too loudly and the answer is only brown.

  3. Winnowing

    The husk lets go. What stays is the part that was always going to be chocolate.

  4. Conching

    Turned, and turned, until grit forgets that it was ever grit.

  5. Tempering

    Cooled, coaxed, cooled again. The snap is the sound of patience.

03  The Bar

60% Dark.

Three ingredients, in the proportions printed on the wrapper. Nothing added to make it cheaper, smoother, or last longer.

Cabosse

60%

Dark

No Preservatives No Additives
Nutrition Facts
Parameter Per Serving (10g) Per 100g % RDA per serve
Energy57.15 Kcal571 Kcal28.58%
Total Fat3.5935.9137%
Unsaturated Fat1.28512.845
MUFA1.17411.741
PUFA0.110
Saturated Fat2.30723.06510.4%
Trans Fat<0.01<0.105.3%
Cholesterol<0.1<1.00%
Protein0.747.40
Carbohydrate5.4754.68
Total Sugar2.2122.11
Added Sugar1.7117.13
Sodium<0.05<0.5

1 Serve = 10g · Serving Size 10g · Servings per Container: 8 · Net Weight: 80g. Percentage contribution to Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) calculated on energy. An average adult requires 2,000 kcal energy per day; calorie needs may vary.

Ingredients

Fine Flavor Cacao Beans (50%), Cocoa Butter (10%), Cane Sugar (40%)

Allergen Information

Manufactured in a completely allergen-free facility. This product is completely allergen-free, contains no allergens and is suitable for highly sensitive consumers.

Net Weight
[50g]
MRP
[Example ₹25.00]
Best Before
[3 Months from Mfd.]
Manufactured By
[Example Chocolate Co., Mumbai, India]

Product of India

  • Palm Oil Free
  • Vegetable Fat
  • Clean Ingredient
  • No Added Preservatives

What 60% dark means

The number on the front is not a score. It is the share of the bar that comes from the cacao pod: the beans themselves, plus the cocoa butter pressed from them. Everything else is cane sugar.

60% cacao, and its own butter Sixty per cent of this bar is the bean and the butter pressed from that same bean. The square marked in red is one serving; the rest of the bar is the same thing, eight times over. one square
One square
10g

57 kcal

Whole bar
8 sq

80 g net

Added sugar
1.7g

per square

No Preservatives No Additives Palm Oil Free Clean Ingredient

Made in a facility that handles no allergens, so the bar is suitable for highly sensitive consumers. Best before three months from manufacture — there is nothing in it to make that date any longer.

Freshly ground chocolate paste, seen close.
Cabosse

04  The Place

Made in India.

India grows cacao and exports most of it as a commodity. Cabosse exists to keep some of it here and to make something worth putting a name on.

Everything is made in one room, by hand, in small batches. Visits by appointment.

Workshop
SDN Foods
Kamothe, Navi Mumbai
Cacao
Fine flavour
Ingredients
3
Origin
Product of India

05  Find Us

Come and taste
what we are making.

Shop No. 06, Soor Malhar CHS, Sector 36, Plot No. 43, Kamothe, Navi Mumbai 410209  ·  Mon–Sat, 10am–6pm