Audacious enough to leave out the refined sugar - not the joy
Thin. Chalky. A cooling sensation on the palate. That telltale aftertaste that arrives a second after the sweetness. Sugar-free treats & desserts in India have asked you to accept less for so long that most people stopped expecting otherwise.
We started from the other end. Decide what the dessert should taste like, then do whatever the formulation demands to get there - no shortcut that shows up on the palate.
The compromise was never necessary. Just uninteresting to solve.
Two audiences, one shared frustration: real dessert never seems to make it into the choices that fit their life.
Some were told to. Some figured it out themselves. Either way, the dessert aisle ignores them or hands them something apologetic.
The millions of Indians who train, log macros, and read every label. They want dessert that respects the discipline of the rest of their diet.
We build every dessert against the same four standards. If a formulation can’t clear all four, it doesn’t ship - however good the idea looked on paper.
And what we won’t do - not out of principle for its own sake, but because each one is how the category lost people in the first place:
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Built and scaled consumer products in India and the US. IIT Kharagpur, UC Berkeley Haas.
At Berkeley’s Alt: Meat Lab, led a team making soy milk without the aftertaste - the same problem, in a different aisle.
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Long-time fitness enthusiast and food blogger, with years in people strategy at Cummins. NMIMS Mumbai.
It started with her own sugar-free experiments, refined through relentless iteration into recipes that actually worked - she was the customer before she was the founder.
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