Chocolate with real fruit juice - a customer success story

Panda has been making chocolate and liquorice in Vaajakoski, Jyväskylä since the 1920’s, and is the second largest confectionery manufacturer in Finland.

When the time came for Panda’s first venture into the world of flavoured white chocolate tablets, the recipe in mind involved a familiar combination of flavours: white chocolate and raspberry.

The challenge? Developing a component with real raspberry fruit juice, inspired by a love for good quality components and conscious consumers’ increasing demand for natural ingredients. This is where we at Candeco joined innovative forces with Panda.

”Candeco has been a supplier for Panda for a couple of years and we know them by experience to be trustworthy, effective and qualified. Their wide selection of components offers a lot of options, which made them a natural choice for developing this unique component,” says Eliisa Haverinen, Quality and Product Development Coordinator at Panda.

To give friends of white chocolate a brand new experience to get excited about, our challenge was twofold. Finding the right fruit juice component at a friendly price for one, and of course, getting the right taste in place.

We tackled this by spiking raspberry pearls with real raspberry juice concentrate, making an ordinary component extraordinary. Not to mention, we got the good flavour and composition in place without compromising Panda’s demands for high quality components.

”We have had great experiences with Candeco as an innovation partner and are very pleased with their ability and keenness to customise products, not least on a tight schedule. With their help, we were able to give friends of white chocolate a high-quality tablet that is both interesting and delicious,” adds Eliisa Haverinen.

With a heart of real raspberry juice, Panda White Chocolate packs a whole lot of flavor and texture into one single bite.