Cocoa. Our unique know-how.
Cocoa is the most typical ingredient in chocolate, and we use it in some of our most loved products for its remarkable combination of flavour and taste, carefully selecting it and processing it.
Experts at cocoa processing
Through the years we have developed a unique expertise in combining and processing the different cocoa beans to create the special aroma and taste of our recipes.
Once the cocoa beans have been removed from the ripe fruit, they are left to ferment for a week, usually under banana leaves, to allow the natural flavours and aromas to develop, and then dried for five days before being shipped to our factories. Here they undergo our rigorous quality controls: organoleptic, physical, chemical, microbiological checks. We then further dry the beans and grind them into a mill that that separates the edible ground nibs from the skin.
The ground nibs are finally roasted to enhance their aroma and colour and because we roast most of the beans ourselves, we can constantly monitor their fragrance, quality and freshness. Then we grind the roasted nibs obtaining a cocoa mass that is then pressed to separate the cocoa butter from the cocoa "cake". Lastly, we break the cocoa cake to get the cocoa powder that we use in our recipes.
The cocoa mass, which is rich in precious cocoa butter, mixed with sugar and other ingredients then processed, gives the Kinder dark chocolate. If added with different percentages of whole milk powder, it gives origin to the different kinds of milk chocolates used for Kinder treats.
Menyokong Petani
Koko kebanyakannya dihasilkan di negara membangun oleh petani kecil yang menghadapi pelbagai isu ekonomi, sosial dan alam sekitar, seperti kekurangan akses kepada sumber, pengetahuan terhad tentang amalan pertanian yang baik, dan perubahan iklim.
Melalui program kemampanan koko kami, kami menyokong petani dalam mengamalkan amalan pertanian mampan yang bertujuan untuk memupuk mata pencarian mampan, disamping menghormati masyarakat dan alam sekitar tempatan. Kami juga membantu mereka mempelbagaikan pendapatan mereka, serta meningkatkan daya tahan komuniti mereka.
Kami juga menyokong secara aktif inisiatif yang mempunyai skop yang lebih luas daripada rantaian bekalan langsung kami dan bermatlamat untuk melindungi komuniti penternak koko dan persekitaran mereka.
Untuk itu, kami menjadi ahli Inisiatif Koko Antarabangsa pada tahun 2008, dan kami menyertai Yayasan Koko Dunia pada tahun 2005.
Pada awal tahun 2021, kami juga bekerjasama dengan NGO Save the Children untuk melindungi hak kanak-kanak dan mempromosikan pendidikan dalam komuniti penanaman koko di Afrika Barat.
