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Commercial-scale fonio for food and beverage

An ancient grain for function and impact

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What We Offer

  • Ancient West African Grains like Sorghum, Millet, and Fonio

  • Whole Grain, Flour, and Crisps

  • Foodservice and Industrial Packaging Formats

  • Food Safety Certifications

  • Traceable Supply Chains

  • Technical Support

Applications for food and beverage manufacturers

Wherever grains are in a formulation, you can substitute fonio, often with functional advantages.

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BAKING

Fonio protein mimics gluten's functionality for bread, pizza, bars, or dessert.

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PASTA

Fast dough formation with our gelatinized flour or even tiny grains.
 

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SNACKS

Perfect for extrusion, puffing, inclusions, and dough-based items.
 

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CEREAL

Build hot cereal, ready-to-eat cereal, granola, and breakfast concepts with fonio.

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BREWING

Fonio brings a juicy tropical note to all sorts of beers, even NA!
 

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PLANT-BASED

Fonio milk is the same process as oat milk. Fonio protein texturized meat analogs.

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CONFECTIONS

Extruded multigrain crisps make a delicious, crunchy inclusion.
 

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NUTRITION

Flour or extruded crisps are easy to incorporate into bars and granola. Grain adds nubbly texture to protein and fiber shakes.

Built for commercial food and beverage teams

The supply, safety, sourcing, and impact details serious teams look for first

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Food Safety
 

GFSI-certified

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Scaled processing

2 tons/hour capacity

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Structured sourcing

Rural aggregation centers

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SUSTAINABILity
 

Traceable, measurable impact

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GLOBAL LEADERSHIP

Pioneers of commercial fonio

THE PRODUCTION GAP

Promising ingredients are easy to talk about

They are harder to scale.

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Food and beverage teams need more than a good story. They need a reliable supply, food-safe processing, consistent quality, and documentation that their procurement and QA teams can use.​​

Yolelé Ingredients was built to solve that gap.

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Yolelé's Story

BUILT FOR SCALE

Built for scale from the ground up

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Yolelé began as a purpose-driven food brand built around fonio, an ancient West African grain with enormous potential.

Purpose-driven beginning

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As demand grew, the company saw the larger challenge: fonio could not reach the global food industry without stronger infrastructure.

The larger challenge

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So Yolelé began building that infrastructure, from farmer aggregation and sourcing systems to modern processing capacity in West Africa

Infrastructure in West Africa

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Today, Yolelé Ingredients helps make fonio and other African crops commercially viable for foodservice operators, food manufacturers, and beverage innovators.

Commercial viability today

The story matters. The supply chain is what makes it usable.

Infrastructure

Ingredients and formats

Fonio today. More African ingredients coming soon.

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Today: Fonio

Commercial fonio formats for modern food production.

For foodservice, prepared foods, bowls, sides, and menu applications.

WHOLE GRAIN

For foodservice, prepared foods, bowls, sides, and menu applications.

FLOUR

For cereal, snack inclusions, toppings, and texture-driven applications.

Puffed Grain

Yolelé Ingredients currently supplies fonio in formats designed for foodservice, snacks, baking, beverages, cereals, and prepared foods.

For snack platforms, bars, clusters, cereals, and crunchy inclusions.

extruded crisps

For commercial snack development and scalable product innovation.

EXPANDABLE Pellets

COMING SOON

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Baobab, Moringa, Bambara Groundnut, Tiger Nuts, Hibiscus

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