New From Tropeaka | Australia’s Only Beauty Custard

Tropeaka’s Beauty Custard is your New daily beauty solution made easy and delicious. Combines the world’s best sustainable Marine Collagen, sourced from the crystal clear waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, with a highly nutritious, certified organic pea protein for lean muscle building and supporting healthy weight management. Free from any nasties such as dairy, soy, gluten, casein, whey or artificial ingredients, and made 100% natural for optimal nutrition any time of the day.

Congratulations on the new Tropeaka Beauty Custard range! Can you tell us the biggest motivation behind the new products?

Thanks, we’re super excited about this one! Our motivation came from an interesting place. With an active database in the hundreds of thousands, we have the unique opportunity to cater towards what our passionate customer base wants. Through this insight, we’ve found that our most requested product has been collagen, but with so many collagen options on the market, we didn’t want to create another product that customers can get elsewhere.

Custards have been trending in the health and wellness space for the last 18 months; however, no one had looked towards creating a custard that was focused on beauty, which includes marine collagen. We wanted to create an incredibly delicious, convenient dessert-style custard that anyone could eat at any time of the day for a filling, nutritious and skin-enhancing solution! We’ve done that, it’s the world’s first beauty custard, and we think it’s our best product yet!

What was your product development process like?

As we are using certified organic pea protein as one of the foundational ingredients, we had to ensure that there was no grittiness that came through. My co-founder Blake worked closely with our manufacturing partners to produce a product that is smooth, creamy, delicious and worthy of dessert. This took many trials, taste-testing, and of course, lots of time spent in R&D, but we got there!

We have a reputation for bringing products to market that taste great, and we wanted to make sure that legacy continued. It was a slow process that went on for months, but we found what worked and our two flavours, Smooth & Creamy Banana and Salted Caramel, taste perfect!

What benefits are contained in your sustainably sourced marine collagen peptides?

We’ve used the world’s best marine collagen peptides! They are sustainably sourced from cod skin that would have otherwise been discarded, while also being wild caught in the crystal clear waters of the North Atlantic ocean.

Due to our collagen peptides’ smaller particle size, they are absorbed 1.5x more efficiently than traditional collagen sources from bovine and porcine. Our Beauty Custard contributes to the maintenance of normal skin hydration, elasticity & integrity and supports healthy skin and hair.

What is your favourite way to enjoy Beauty Custard?

What makes this product so good is it’s great just on its own. Mix it with a small amount of cold plant-based milk or cold water, and it’s ready to eat in less than 1 minute. That’s my favourite way; however, some people also like to mix it with milk/water and then heat it to have a hot custard.

At Global By Nature, we distribute 250 brands and over 2,500 health and wellness products to trade. Our knowledgeable team are passionate about connecting you with the best quality health brands that support the growth of your business.

Interview with Richard Turner, Founder & Managing Director of Ombar

A purpose driven brand first established in England now available in Australia. Ombar’s mission from the beginning is to change the way the world sees chocolate. From cheap, sugary junk food to a cacao rich, nutritious super bar. First established in 2007 after discovering that the humble cacao bean is a powerful superfood with an array of health benefits. Dismayed that chocolate had lost its way, Ombar vowed to champion good chocolate and put cacao back on top. From harvesting the cacao pods in Ecuador, right through to the production of Cambridge, the team at Ombar are close to cacao, sparking creativity and passion overall.

1.  Welcome to the GBN Family! We’re very excited to be launching Ombar to the Australian market. Can you tell us a little bit about the Ombar journey?

Yes, we started in 2007 after I came to discover that cacao / cocoa – the key ingredient in all chocolate was a nourishing superfood. After wondering why chocolate was then so unhealthy, I set about making a chocolate bar that delivered cacao’s health benefits as well as being super delicious.

As we had no idea how to make chocolate or run a business (and we didn’t have any money!) it took a while to get things moving, but eventually we moved out of my kitchen and into a proper little chocolate factory. We’ve moved again since then into our awesome current chocolate factory near Cambridge, UK, complete with shiny Swiss chocolate machines!

Ombar has grown considerably over the years and is now sold in numerous independents and a number of larger grocers in the UK. We also export into 15 countries, mostly in Europe, and now in Australia!

2.  Why was the creation of this brand and offering so important to you?

I think I’ve always had an affinity with chocolate, so it had a real impact on me experimenting with the raw material that chocolate is made from. I was fascinated by the effect – body and mind – of consuming raw cacao – it’s a great deal more potent that it gets credit for in regular chocolate. So I had the desire to share this experience in the convenient and indulgent form of a chocolate bar.

3.  How does Ombar differ from other organic chocolate bars on the market?

Most chocolate brands do not make chocolate. It’s nearly all outsourced to a few manufacturers as making chocolate is not easy. In addition to making all our own chocolate from scratch, we go to the additional lengths of sourcing directly from farmer’s coops in Ecuador. Again, this is certainly not the easiest way to source ingredients, but for us it’s essential to be completely authentic and transparent in our approach and this was the only way to achieve it.

4.  What was your product development process like and the creation of your flavour combinations?

We are a very innovative company and love to experiment. Our development process flowed from what we ourselves wanted to see on the market, so it’s been a fairly intuitive process in the past, but it’s led to a number of breakthroughs. For example, we were the first chocolate company in Europe to use coconut sugar in chocolate, and to use creamed coconut as a delicious vegan milk chocolate. More recently, we’ve pioneered a way of using a variety of germinated oats to create an indulgent vegan milk chocolate bar with super low CO2e emissions.

5.  What has been the most challenging aspect of building the Ombar brand?

Being a food manufacturer sourcing ingredients from the other side of the world certainly has brought its fair share of headaches over the years! But ultimately, growing the business is down to having the right team. Without the right people in place, the business could lose a year if we’re not careful, so this has been a big learning. You’ll be pleased to know we currently have an amazing team in place!

6.  The entire range is absolutely delicious, but do you have a favourite SKU?

Sometimes it’s whatever we happen to be making that day as I’m in the fortunate position to be able to sample fresh from the line and am nearly always happy with the result. But I do always find myself going back to Coco 60% which is one of our original flavours. It has the perfect balance of complexity from the cacao and creaminess from the coconut and coco sugar.

7.  Ombar is now a B Certified Corporation. Can you tell us a little bit about this process and why this certification is so important to you?

We quite recently became a B Corp company following around 12 months of work to become certified. B Corp seemed to encapsulate in their standards what we aspire to being as a business and a brand. We do so much to try and have a positive impact and by becoming a B Corp, it’s given our aspirations structure and a road map to keep building on for the future. It also provides a recognisable mark for consumers to see which businesses are genuinely about more than profit.

8.  We’re really excited to be launching Ombar to the Australian market!

Us too! It’s something we’ve eyed as a brilliant opportunity for a number of years so to see it finally happen has got us very excited. Let’s do this!

At Global By Nature, we distribute 250 brands and over 2,500 health and wellness products to trade. Our knowledgeable team are passionate about connecting you with the best quality health brands that support the growth of your business.