We partner with two facilities in the New York Hudson Valley to produce Chikka Chikka. One is a non-profit that employs veterans and people with disabilities. The other is a local bean-to-bar chocolate maker.

These facilities also process milk, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, eggs, soy, and sesame.

The maple syrup is local from New York, from Catskill Mountain Sugar House to be precise. The coriander, fennel, and cardamom, are from India. The cinnamon is from Sri Lanka. We grind the cardamom and cinnamon bark ourselves to ensure that there are no additives, and to maximize the flavor and health benefits. The mint is from Oregon.

We like bright colors also! But we like them better on the packaging and not in our bodies. Those colorful balls are made from sugar, high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors and flavors. We wanted to make something healthier. Food is medicine!

We slow roast the fennel with maple syrup and then mix the rest of the ingredients.

½ teaspoon at a time. Maybe limit yourself to one tin per day. Good luck ;)

Not all ingredients, but the maple syrup, beet powder, cinnamon, mint, and spirulina are organic. We are currently looking for organic fennel and split coriander. More importantly, we have had everything tested by a third party lab (EMSL), and they show no traces of pesticides.

January 2024. We launched to the world at the Good Food Mercantile in June 2024

Sabeen has a fennel seed habit that is a bit out of control. She would roast her own seeds and sweeten and mix them because she couldn’t find a product out there that wasn’t filled with artificial junk.  When we brought some on a hiking trip with our friends Joel and Molly they loved it saying ‘we would totally buy this’, and 'where can we get some?.' That is all we needed to hear to decide to start this venture. 

Fennel is considered an alkaline food and raises the pH in your mouth and digestive system to create a healing microbiome; increasing evidence that oral health is tied to myriad health conditions.

On our website. If you are a retailer or want to buy cases, you can order on Faire.

Seven days for most orders (but if you purchased right after Wirecutter recommended us, then up to a month! Sorry!)

$100

Not yet. We are on Faire and RangeMe ordering platforms but we are doing deliveries and shipments ourselves as we grow.

Our product is made in small batches, without the use of added 'stabilizers' - ingredients like emulsifiers and gums. Some variation results from how real maple syrup and other whole food ingredients behave when heated without the use of such additives.

Call Arif: 845-670-4668 Or email: arif@chikkachikka.com He loves getting questions from random folks (as long as you are not trying to sell us something)