OODAALOLLY INTRODUCES MUSHROOM MILK CHOCOLATE BAR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PERFECT DAY

Oodaalolly presents its sustainable, equitable, and delectable vision for the future of chocolate in an industry-leading partnership that puts craft chocolate firmly in the innovation spotlight.

SAN FRANCISCO, January 25, 2023 — Oodaalolly Chocolate is known for its award-winning bars made using the best Philippine-sourced ingredients. They have now partnered with Perfect Day, Inc., to launch Mushroom Milk Chocolate, a traditional Swiss-style milk chocolate, except instead of using milk from animals or plants, they’ve milked mushrooms—a fungus if we’re being technical.

It tastes better than your average commodity cacao supermarket chocolate bar—an International Chocolate Awards judge tasted a sample—but what’s truly exciting is that milk substitutes like this, if adopted by more people and companies, could help avert climate catastrophe, efficiently feed more people, and eliminates animal suffering.  

“This bar embodies our goal to create a fun chocolate that people want to try that also happens to be sustainable, equitable, and delectable,” said Hernan Lauber, the founder of Oodaalolly. “Perfect Day has been a great partner, and we’re excited to use their ‘mushroom milk’ to make chocolate that tastes great.”

Fun, Great Tasting Chocolate With An Added Bonus

This unique ingredient comes from sustainable ainimal-free dairy experts at Perfect Day. 

They use a recombinant DNA technique to re-tool a biological factory, Trichoderma reesei, a mesophilic and filamentous fungus, to produce high levels of a specific protein in place of its native enzymes. Then, similar to brewing beer,  the T. reesei colony is placed in a fermentation tank and given food and kept warm. Instead of eating sugar and producing alcohol like yeast, the fungus eats sugar and produces bio-similar milk protein. After a certain period, the proteins and the T. reesei are separated and the “milk” is dried and powdered just like conventional milk typically used in chocolate making.

Compared to conventional proteins, Mushroom Milk emits 97% fewer greenhouse gases, consumes  97% less surface and groundwater, and uses 60% fewer fossil fuels. 

A Product For Early Adopters

We launched this bar on Kickstarter because we wanted consumers willing to take a leap of faith and try innovative new products—true early adopters. “It’s fun talking about mushroom milk and people seem interested in learning about it!” notes Jeremy Burnich, Oodaalolly co-founder. “It’s a fascinating process, and engaging with communities on social media [example on reddit] has been quite rewarding.”

We are putting this ingredient front and center and making it a key component of the future of our company. Oodaalolly makes great-tasting chocolate that everyone can enjoy, knowing that it is made with integrity, care, and quality ingredients. 

The Oodaalolly Mushroom Milk Bar will be available initially on Kickstarter [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/oodaalolly/make-one-thousand-tomorrows]. 

About Oodaalolly, LLC

Hernan Lauber founded Oodaalolly Chocolate in 2017.  A Swiss-Filipino-American son of an itinerant Swiss chocolate maker. Looking at his children and reflecting on his roots—a Filipino born Swiss national living in the United States—he decided to start Oodaalolly — Filipino ingredients with Swiss style and techniques made proudly in the USA.

Joining him is Jeremy Burnich, a tinkerer at heart, he developed Oodaalolly’s “Laabooratory”—a space where unique Filipino ingredients, Swiss techniques, and American innovation are brought together to create the world’s most memorable chocolate.
Oodaalolly focuses on sourcing premium cacao from the Philippines via direct trade with co-op farmers—setting it apart in the bean-to-bar world. It all comes together in the award-winning chocolate customers buy again and again.

We're serious about our craft without being stuffy. 

To learn more, visit oodaalolly.com or follow along on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn or vibe with us on Spotify.

About Perfect Day, Inc.

Founded in 2014 by Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi, Perfect Day is on a mission to create a kinder, greener tomorrow through the harmony of science and nature. Leveraging expertise across biology, food innovation, and consumer products, Perfect Day supports companies in developing, scaling, and commercializing next-generation products that satisfy market demands and champion a path toward a sustainable future. 

The company’s flagship product, the world’s first precision-fermented protein, debuted in 2020 and today can be found in animal-free ice creams, cream cheese, baked goods, and sports nutrition products across the U.S., Hong Kong, and Singapore. Instead of relying on cows, Perfect Day utilizes microflora to create proprietary animal-free milk protein. Perfect Day’s protein can be used across a range of products to deliver the same taste and texture while supporting the planet. An ISO compliant, third-party reviewed life cycle assessment (LCA) found that Perfect Day’s whey protein reduces blue water consumption by up to 99%, greenhouse gas emissions by up to 97%, and non-renewable energy use by up to 60%, when compared to conventional production methods. 

To learn more, visit perfectday.com or follow along on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

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