Milk and burgers without cows, eggs and nuggets without chickens — most of the new 'beyond' products are about eliminating animals from food, for reasons both moral and environmental. But as QOA shows, the food reinvention movement is widening.
QOA isn't aiming to replace cocoa altogether — it's focusing on providing an alternative to the lower-quality commodity that's used in candy bars and other highly processed foods. As co-founder Sara Marquart told Fast Company: “We love chocolate, we love cocoa, and we love the product that is produced in a sustainable and just way by small-stake farmers. [...] We’re just wanting to offer a solution for mass market chocolate that we can skip the CO2 footprint and the child slavery.”
