"Among the more than 15,000 startups registered for #ewc2024, Kumasi has made it into our top 250 of the Global Finals" Dat was een mooi berichtje deze week in onze inbox! Als we in de top 100 komen, gaan we ff internationaal knallen 😉
Kumasi Drinks
Diensten levensmiddelen en dranken
Don't Waste It, Just Drink It! We pour cocoa wastage in a bottle. And strangely enough, that's delicious.
Over ons
With Kumasi we would like to introduce you to cocoa juice, a brand new product that will not only amaze your taste buds but will fight food waste and poverty in the cocoa sector as well. The first time you taste Kumasi you may think "Hmm, strangely fruity!'' Naturally, we associate cocoa with a fine, chocolaty taste, but there is way more to cocoa than just that. That's why we were surprised that this delicious juice normally goes to waste. During the harvest of the cocoa beans this delicious juice flows into the earth, just like that. And that's a waste. Both for the farmers as for us, cocoa lovers. 100% Natural, 0% Waste If you want to make chocolate, it's just the beans that you're after. But for Kumasi, we are mainly interested in a residual product, the fruit pulp. In our cocoa juice we found a 100% natural solution, made from the fruit surrounding the cocoa beans. In this way, we prevent the waste of an exclusive and delicious product, and are able to offer farmers in Ghana an extra source of income (up to 30% increase). Next to that, our product will be 100% Ghanaian, as we are producing our cocoa juice from bean to bottle in the Kumasi region (Ghana). Strangely Fruity Extracting juice from the pulp of the cocoa fruit sounds like a cool idea, but is it also tasty? For a documentary for Nestlé, Lars Gierveld traveled to Ghana to learn more about the cocoa supply chain, and during this quest he was offered some juice for the first time. He was overwhelmed by the fruity taste of the juice: "The taste is something that you have never experienced before! Because our association with cacao is so strongly linked to chocolate, our brain expects a chocolate taste". But that's not what it tastes like at all! Cocoa is a fruit, and therefore the pulp has a fruity, sweet and invigorating flavor (think apple-lychee!).
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- Branche
- Diensten levensmiddelen en dranken
- Bedrijfsgrootte
- 2-10 medewerkers
- Hoofdkantoor
- Amsterdam
- Type
- Naamloze vennootschap
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Primair
Routebeschrijving
Amsterdam, NL
Medewerkers van Kumasi Drinks
Updates
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Fijne organisatie. Mooi publiek. Toffe discussies. We mochten een praatje houden op de Impact Founder Meetup bij Unknown Group over hoe wij met Kumasi Drinks als kleine organisatie vaak strategische samenwerkingen aangaan met veel grotere organisaties. We geloven namelijk echt dat dat de weg is om impact te maken. Alle aanwezigen kregen een sneak preview van de cocktail voorgeschoteld die we met zo'n samenwerkingspartner ontwikkelden: Royal DeKuyper. Binnenkort brengen we samen met hen een cocktail op de markt.
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Kumasi Drinks heeft dit gerepost
Walking through the supermarket, we came across Kumasi Drinks, a drink made from cacao fruit. We knew cacao was harvested for chocolate production but didn’t think the fruit would actually make such a nice drink. Kumasi is a brand that fights food waste, is socially responsible, and is mindful of its production and the farmers, all while creating an innovative product from a residual resource. 🌍❤️ How cool is that? (𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘢𝘥, 𝘸𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵😎) Let us know about other cool, sustainable innovations we should look into! #SustainableLiving #Innovation #ProductReview #MarketResearch #Amsterdam #ConversationStudio #nomorecrappyproducts
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Last week we competed in finals of the NL Startup Competition in Annabel Rotterdam. And We're thrilled to share that we won 1st prize in the Circulair/Sustainable category. We have talked about how we amplify our story of cacao fruit by widen our product range this year. We introduced cacao fruit on the market with our soft drinks, but this year exciting new product (collaborations) are coming up. Cacao fruit has so many possibilities. It is becoming increasingly accepted that cacao is a fruit and it is therefore literally a waste to only use the seeds. We like to think outside the bean ánd the box. Don't hesitate to contact us if your organization would like to explore the possibilities with this delicious fruit with a good story. Open for more collabs! Thanks for the great event Erasmus Enterprise and MT/Sprout
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Kumasi is opgericht om letterlijk 'buiten de boon' te denken: we gebruiken het sap uit de cacaovrucht, dat eeuwenlang werd verspild, in onze producten zodat cacaoboeren extra inkomen kunnen verdienen. Maar waar wij een paar jaar geleden met partijen die hun nek durfden uit te steken (zie onder) de stap namen om buiten de cacaoboon te gaan denken, moeten we ook de stap durven te nemen om buiten onszelf te denken; buiten onze eigen Kumasi Drinks. Dan kunnen nog veel meer boeren extra inkomen verdienen met al dat sap dat nog de grond instroomt. In Ghana en Ivoorkust alleen al is dat bijna anderhalf miljard (!!) liter per jaar Daarom helpen we boeren in Ghana en Ivoorkust met de opzet hun eigen lokale juice-lijnen. Wij helpen met onze kennis en ervaring, maar ook met materialen en financiering voor de opzet. Boeren krijgen zo hun eigen handel in cacao fruit juice. Van A tot fles, zeg maar. In het plaatsje Banko, vlak bij Kumasi, hebben boeren op deze manier hun eigen merk ‘Banko Juice’ in de markt gezet. En dat deden ze geheel in stijl (zie video): https://lnkd.in/ew3RgK64 Heel tof. Voor zulke voorbeelden zijn we dit avontuur begonnen. Dit project werd mede mogelijk gemaakt door partijen die over hun eigen organisatiegrenzen heen keken: ETG, Beyond Beans Foundation, Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) | Partner in Sustainable Development, Nestlé (Nestlé Nederland), Tony's Chocolonely (Chocolonely Foundation)
Kumasi Connects
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Het was mooi om weer aanwezig te zijn op ImpactFest. De enige frisdrank die er geschonken werd, was Kumasi. Zo zien we dat graag! Ook werd Lars geïnterviewd door New Business Radio over impact maken en avonturen beleven 😉 Om dit te beluisteren --> https://lnkd.in/eps6AyjZ
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