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🥈 Amazake Cocoa Spread – Silver Innovation Award Winner at SIAL 2025!

We are proud to announce that our Amazake Cocoa Spread has been awarded the Silver Innovation Prize at SIAL 2025, one of the world’s most prestigious food innovation showcases.

Crafted with care in Montreal, this unique spread combines the natural sweetness and creaminess of amazake, a traditional Japanese rice fermentation product, with rich cocoa. The result is a healthy, dairy-free, and refined sugar-free alternative to chocolate spreads — perfect for both gourmet creations and everyday indulgence.

This award is a celebration of our commitment to merging time-honored Japanese fermentation techniques with local, sustainable ingredients to offer something truly innovative and delicious.

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Rooted in Montreal, we craft koji with love.

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ABOUT MISO

Miso is a beloved cornerstone of Japanese cuisine, a velvety paste crafted through the ancient art of fermentation. Made from soybeans, rice, barley, or other grains, miso is not only a pantry staple but a powerful flavor enhancer, bringing deep umami notes to your dishes.

Why Miso?

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ABOUT AMAZAKE

Amazake is a traditional Japanese drink made from fermented rice, often enjoyed for its naturally sweet flavor and creamy texture. It is created through a fermentation process involving cooked rice and koji (Aspergillus oryzae), which converts the starches in the rice into sugars.

This delightful beverage is not only delicious but also packed with nutrients!

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RECIPE

Koji is not only a key ingredient for Japanese fermented food but also it is getting common among chefs to use koji as a tenderizer / umami enhancer in any kinds of culinary .

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FERMENTATION

Fermented foods have been a well-established in everywhere in the world for thousands of years. In recent years there’s been a greater push to raise koji awareness, especially with NOMA in Copenhagen and Jeremy Umansky with Koji Alchemy.  

Koji Fermentation recipe

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