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Commercial-scale fonio for food and beverage

For brewing, snacks, cereals, plant-based foods, baking, and nutrition-forward products, fonio provides functional advantages.

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Built for real product teams

Whole grain, flour, and crisps
Foodservice and manufacturing formats
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Built for commercial food and beverage teams

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

Food Safety

GFSI-certified

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Scaled processing

2 tons/hour capacity

Structured sourcing

Rural aggregation centers

SUSTAINABILity

Traceable, measurable impact

GLOBAL LEADERSHIP

Pioneers of commercial fonio

Applications for food and beverage manufacturers

Fonio offers functional advantages across product categories, from brewing and baking to snacks, cereals, and plant-based foods.

BAKING

Use fonio formats in baked goods, bars, inclusions, and grain-based formulations.

PASTA

Explore fonio grain, flour, and blended formats for pasta and grain-forward products.

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SNACKS

Use fonio in crisps, puffs, chips, bars, clusters, and other snack platforms.

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CEREAL

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

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BREWING

Use fonio formats in baked goods, bars, inclusions, and grain-based formulations.

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PLANT-BASED

Use fonio formats in baked goods, bars, inclusions, and grain-based formulations.

CONFECTIONS

Use fonio formats in baked goods, bars, inclusions, and grain-based formulations.

NUTRITION

Support nutrition-forward products, fortified formats, beverages, and better-for-you concepts.

THE PRODUCTION GAP

Great ingredients often fail before they reach production

Promising ingredients are easy to talk about. They are harder to scale.

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 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.

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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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