Cocoa Replace

Future-proof your supply chain with our reliable, cost-effective cocoa alternative

The pressure to stabilize costs and ensure ingredient availability—while keeping up with the demand for cocoa products, is increasing now more than ever. That’s why Ardent Mills created Cocoa Replace, your single-ingredient solution, designed for wheat-based goods—streamlining reformulation and minimizing label changes for manufacturers.

Cost Savings and Stable Supply

Cocoa Replace, a single ingredient, delivers a significant cost savings and can replace up to 25% of cocoa powder in standard formulations. With a rich legacy in wheat flour milling and baking, Ardent Mills will bring unmatched expertise to deliver consistent, premium quality ingredients. Trust the industry leader that knows baking best.

Taste and Colour that Deliver

Beyond critical cost savings and availability, Cocoa Replace was created specifically to maintain quality and performance in baked goods and snacks such as cakes, muffins, brownies, cookies and even pumpernickel breads.

Validated through sensory trials, Cocoa Replace complements the rich, indulgent flavor tones of chocolate, offering a seamless complimentary substitute cocoa powder up to 25%. Its rounded notes enhance the overall flavor profile, delivering a familiar taste of chocolate without compromise. It’s all part of our Purpose-Powered Innovation, helping you meet the demands of today—and plan for new levels of operational excellence tomorrow.

Recognizing the complexity of cocoa flavor, and the challenges to replicating it in a replacement product, Ardent Mills validated the solution through comprehensive sensory trials with both trained panels and consumers. Results from both sensory screening trials by highly trained sensory experts and from consumers demonstrated that Cocoa Replace closely matches cocoa powder in sensory experience and acceptability, making it a viable alternative to cocoa in baking applications up to 25%*.

Disclaimer:
*Based on tests conducted by FMSS, Inc., a CLT with 54 US consumers and a sensory screening by a highly trained sensory panel.