The Joy of Just Enough
Sick of buying a jar when you only need a pinch?
Tired of trying to use it before it inevitably becomes flavorless dust?
Occo is our antidote, and it’s the best you’ve ever tasted.
Try anything once
Often, the smallest ingredients make the biggest impact… But that also means they can be the most annoying to buy.
With pre-measured spices sealed into forever-fresh pods, Occo makes trying a new recipe or experimenting with flavor as easy as pie.*
Better ingredients from better supply chains
To provide you with the freshest, most flavorful ingredients (and help dismantle centuries of systemic injustice within the spice trade), Occo taps into the transparent, sustainable supply chains of small-scale spice merchants that have spent years building relationships at the farm level.
Whenever possible, we prioritize sourcing spices that are:
Despite the myth that spices are good for years, ground spices actually lose flavor within 3-6 months. Oxygen, light, heat, and humidity (common occurrences in a kitchen) cause the essential oils in spice to oxidize and decay. Without these aptly-named oils, spices lose their color, aroma, and flavor.
Occo spices are portioned into half-teaspoon pods and sealed for airtight freshness using a modified atmosphere packaging technique.
Freshness Sealed in with Science
Without oxygen…
Decay is slowed down significantly, and shelf life is dramatically extended.
Plastic-free packaging that actually gets recycled
Occo spice pods are made from aluminum, the most recycled and most recyclable material on the planet (75% of all aluminum ever produced is still in use today!). The rest of our product is made from paperboard which is easily recycled with paper and cardboard.
Don't buy food just to throw it away
40% of all food sold in the U.S. is ultimately wasted—and we’re fed up. Occo allows you to buy just what you need and use it all before it can go bad, thereby conserving resources and reducing the carbon emissions associated with growing and transporting ingredients that end up in the trash.
We’re not perfect, but we are trying
There’s nothing we love more than a home-cooked meal: the excitement of trying a new recipe, the satisfaction of serving seconds.
But there’s nothing that bothers us more than waste: wasted time, wasted money, wasted food, wasted energy.
In the same way a pinch of spice can transform a meal, our hope is that Occo can help transform the food industry. Thanks for joining us on this mission.
