Cargill's New Premium Chocolate Brand VANOVA™ Launches in the Turkish Market

Combining Cargill's global expertise with years of experience in Türkiye, VANOVA™ is a premium professional chocolate brand that offers consistent performance, superior quality, and versatile use in every application.

CargillA premium chocolate brand developed specifically for professional chefs, pastry chefs, and the HoReCa sector. VANOVA™Cargill introduced VANOVA™ to the Turkish market. A reflection of Cargill's innovation, quality, and chef-focused product development approach, VANOVA™ brings the company's global cocoa and chocolate expertise to the needs of professionals in Türkiye.

Carrying the legacy of a brand with roots in 1880s Antwerp, Belgium, VANOVA™ is now produced in Türkiye with the assurance of Cargill's global cocoa supply chain and chocolate expertise. Offering a solution to one of the biggest challenges in professional kitchens – batch-to-batch quality variations – VANOVA™ guarantees the same taste profile, consistent fluidity, and superior performance with every use.

The brand's Black Diamond 55 (bitter), Coral 35 (milk), and Pearl 29 (white) couverture varieties are designed to deliver flawless results in all pastry applications, from ganache and praline to coatings and ice cream.

VANOVA™'s recipes are developed at Cargill's global concept center in Belgium, where it combines professional chocolate and cocoa expertise.House of ChocolateDeveloped by master chefs and Cargill R&D experts, VANOVA™ stands out with its clean formula containing 100% cocoa butter. Its ideal fluidity and flawless tempering properties offer chefs creative freedom in every application, from the finest and most delicate decorations to the densest ganaches.

VANOVA™ has proven its suitability for Turkish palates by winning the approval of 200 chefs in a study conducted by the independent research company Akademetre Research.

Chef İbrahim Yıldız, who tested the product in his kitchen, said the following about VANOVA™: “Overall, the product performed beyond our expectations. It has a balanced profile that can be easily used in different recipes. The tempering process was quite important for us, and the product's workability in this regard was remarkably good. It gave stable and reliable results in terms of consistency, gloss, and snapping. In addition, its melting and fluid structure allowed us to obtain a homogeneous and smooth result in ganache and coating applications.”

Yıldız stated that VANOVA™ is a product suitable for professional kitchen use, offering stable quality and a successful price/performance ratio, and added that they will continue to evaluate VANOVA™ in different recipes in their kitchens and will continue their collaborations.

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Cargill Food META (Middle East, Türkiye and Africa) Senior Director of Functional Systems and Strategy Cem BeyselRegarding the launch, he said, “Professional chefs and artisan chocolate makers in Türkiye demand technically superior and, above all, consistent products they can rely on to showcase their creativity. VANOVA™ is designed to directly address this need. By combining Cargill’s global cocoa expertise with our rigorous production process, we aim to be one of the most reliable tools in the hands of professionals.”

“VANOVA™ is more than just chocolate; it’s a creative solution partner designed for chefs,” said Cem Beysel, continuing: “With its reliable performance and versatility that adapts to every application, VANOVA™ will inspire Turkish chefs and empower them to take their work to the next level.”