Pre-production
Custom CBE Blends — editorial still life
Derivative N° 07 · Engineered fraction · Chiplun · Ratnagiri

Custom CBE Blends

Engineered from kokum, sal, and mango stearin

A contract service, not a shelf product. The design intent: blend three stearins — kokum, sal, and mango — into custom SOS and POS ratios matched to your chocolate line’s exact melt curve, snap, and bloom tolerance.

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The service & the brief

What this lipid actually is.

Chocolate is a triacylglycerol puzzle. Every line — from a ₹20 bar to a ₹2,000 bonbon — has a specific melt curve, a specific snap, and a specific bloom tolerance. Most manufacturers compromise by buying a standard CBE and reformulating around it. The service we intend to offer does the opposite: you name the target, and the blend is engineered to it.

A typical engagement runs like this. You send a 1 kg sample of your current CBE and a list of parameters — target melt window, SOS-to-POS ratio, crystallisation speed, bloom tolerance, cost ceiling. The intended process is to replicate that profile across a set of candidate blends of kokum, sal, and mango stearin, dry-fractionated and analysed by SFC, DSC, and GC. We do not have a lab or a plant yet, so this is not a service we can sell today.

The intended commercial shape is that the strongest candidates go out for your line trial, and supply is then committed against an agreed volume and price window, with lot traceability and a CoA on every shipment. None of that is available yet.

No commercial terms exist yet. If you tell us your specification now, it shapes what we build toward.

You name the melt. We are building the process to match it.
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Specifications

The numbers behind every kilogram.

Technical specifications

Published typical values · not lot data

Candidate blends per brief
6–10
Blend feedstocks
Kokum · Sal · Mango

Fatty acid signature

Fatty acidNotationTypical range
SOS (StOSt)Engineered50–80%
POS (PaOSt)Engineered5–25%
POP (PaOPa)Engineered<10%
Free stearic (C18:0)Balance35–60%
Free oleic (C18:1)Balance25–45%
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Formulation uses

Where it earns its keep.

Applications where this lipid is generally used, drawn from published formulation practice.

Imported-CBE alternative sourcing

Indian-origin CBE at comparable specification and lower FOB cost.

Heat-resistant chocolate lines

Engineered melt for tropical distribution summers.

Premium bonbon and bean-to-bar

Low-inclusion CBE supplement for specific bloom and snap targets.

Compound coatings at scale

Sal-heavy blends tuned for biscuit and confectionery glazes.

Non-palm chocolate claims

Zero palm across the blend. Strong EU clean-label positioning.

Private-label body butters

Cosmetic-grade blends engineered for specific Indian-summer stability.

Substitution guidance

Our engagements typically replace an existing imported CBE 1:1. For lines currently running a sal-based CBE, we can match the SFC curve while lifting cosmetic credibility through kokum or mango inclusion. Clients sign a mutual NDA before lab work begins.

Provenance of these figures

Every specification on this page is a published typical value for the botanical species, compiled from supplier technical data sheets and the peer-reviewed literature. Real ranges shift with origin, season, kernel quality and refining route: treat these as indicative, and always specify against your supplier’s own CoA.

Pre-production

Open a specification brief.

If you have a target melt curve or SOS/POS ratio in mind, send it — it tells us what to build toward, and we will come back to you when the process is validated.

Register interest
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Also from the shelf

Three more dossiers.

We do not sell commodity butters.

From Konkan with love.