Picture a 70% dark chocolate that tastes of tropical fruit, yet works exactly like the Callebaut couverture you already rely on. That's Flavourcode 01, the very first chocolate in Callebaut's brand new range, created through their Flavourcode™ fermentation process. The fruit isn't added. It's already in the cocoa bean, and fermentation is how Callebaut bring it out.

The flavour opens with intense passion fruit, pineapple, mango and ripe banana, moves into layers of dried fruit and finishes with a long, bittersweet cocoa note. Callebaut sum it up in three words: unexpected taste intensity. It sits in the fruit-forward Zestina family of their Signature Collection and comes as Callets in in 1kg and 2.5kg bags with a thin, four-drop fluidity, ready to weigh, melt and temper.

What Is Callebaut Flavourcode 01?

Flavourcode 01 is a dark couverture with a minimum of 70% cocoa solids and 43% fat. Most cocoa is fermented in open heaps or wooden boxes. For Flavourcode, Callebaut ferment the beans in sealed vessels under carefully controlled conditions, guiding the yeasts that occur naturally on the cocoa fruit to unlock more complexity and intensity of flavour. The recipe itself stays short: cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter and a little lecithin. The 01 in the name marks it as the first in a new generation of Callebaut chocolates.

How to Use Flavourcode 01

That generous fat content gives Flavourcode 01 its thin fluidity, so it runs easily into a mould and over a cooling wire, coating thinly and evenly. It's made for fine bonbon and truffle shells, dipping and enrobing, chocolate bars and tablets, ice cream and gelato, and plated or layered desserts such as entremets and gateaux. Melt and temper it as you would any dark couverture, following the tempering curve on the pack. Because the fruit is in the chocolate itself, a simple dark ganache or a chocolate sorbet is a lovely way to let it speak for itself. Store it somewhere clean, dry and odour-free at 12-20°C and it will keep for 24 months.

Pairings and Ideas 

Flavourcode 01's own tasting notes point straight to its best partners: passion fruit, pineapple, mango and banana. It sits just as naturally with coconut, lime, dark rum and dried fruit. A few ideas to try:

• Passion fruit ganache bonbons in a thin Flavourcode 01 shell
• Banana and dark chocolate entremet with a caramelised pineapple insert
• Dark chocolate gelato rippled with mango and passion fruit
• A 70% tasting bar topped with dried pineapple and toasted coconut
• Rum and lime truffles rolled in cocoa powder
• Dried mango slices half dipped in tempered Flavourcode 01