Inside CocoaPod by 80Noir®
The Recipe Behind CocoaPod by 80Noir®
Real chocolate was never going to behave like powder.
CocoaPod by 80Noir® began with a simple ambition: to create a beautiful real-chocolate drink from a capsule.
Simple idea. Very complex reality.
The exact recipe? That stays behind the lab door.
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The challenge
Real chocolate behaves differently.
Most capsule systems were designed around coffee or soluble powders. Real chocolate brings an entirely different set of behaviours into the equation.
To make it work, we have had to understand how multiple factors interact — because changing one can change everything else.
Why it took time
The Goldilocks problem.
With real chocolate, almost everything is a balancing act. Too much. Too little. Too large. Too small. The answer lives somewhere in between.
Too much.
Too much chocolate and the water may not move through the system as it needs to.
Too little.
Too little and the final cup can lose the depth we're looking for.
Too large.
Chocolate that is too large may not behave or extract quickly enough.
Too small.
Go too small and filling, packing and flow can present a different set of challenges.
Just once isn't enough.
The recipe has to perform beautifully and repeatedly — not simply produce one good cup.
Somewhere between too much and too little
THE
SWEET
SPOT.
Where chocolate depth, physical form, dose, flow, extraction and final cup quality begin to work together.
Extraction · Consistency · Final cup
Finding that balance has been one of the most important parts of developing CocoaPod by 80Noir®.
So, what's actually in the recipe?
Nice try.
Designed with circular sustainability in mind
Great chocolate today.
A brighter tomorrow.
The CocoaPod by 80Noir® formulation and system are being considered not only for flavour and performance, but alongside the wider materials and sustainability pathway.
That means thinking about the commercial product we can build responsibly now, while continuing to investigate how the system around the chocolate could evolve in the future.
CocoaPod by 80Noir® is not currently being presented as compostable and no final next-generation capsule material has been selected. Materials research is progressing alongside product development.
A milestone moment
DID IT.
We're asking, “How do we make it work beautifully, repeatedly and at scale?”
What comes next
From recipe
to reality.
Now we move from a working recipe towards a complete, reliable and scalable CocoaPod by 80Noir® system.
This is where formulation meets physical form, engineering, machinery and manufacturing.
CocoaPod by 80Noir®
The chocolate is there. Now we build the system around it.
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