Nocla

About Nocla

Nocla is a Danish food ingredient and flavour company focused on natural, fermented solutions for modern food production. It develops clean-label flavour ingredients and condiments from organic Danish crops and side streams, combining fermentation know-how with culinary and food-tech expertise.

The company serves food manufacturers, professional kitchens, foodservice operators, and private-label customers that want better flavour, simpler ingredient lists, and products that are easier to produce at scale. Nocla positions itself as a partner for innovation, helping customers create products with depth, umami, consistency, and functionality while keeping sustainability, traceability, and quality at the centre.

Its approach is built around making responsible flavour easier to integrate into industrial and professional settings. Nocla emphasizes natural ingredients, transparent sourcing, and production systems designed for reliable performance, from development through scale-up.

Core Values

• Naturalness: Nocla believes flavour should come from natural ingredients and thoughtful craftsmanship rather than additives or synthetic shortcuts.
• Responsibility: The company frames sustainability, traceability, and climate awareness as core requirements, not optional extras, in how it develops and produces food solutions.
• Craft and quality: It emphasizes professional craft, Nordic clarity, and respect for ingredients, with a strong focus on consistent performance and high standards.
• Innovation: Nocla works to simplify food production without simplifying flavour, using fermentation to create new solutions that meet changing industry needs.
• Transparency: The company values clear communication about ingredients, sourcing, and production, and highlights short, clean labels and documented processes.

Unique Aspects

• Fermentation-led platform: Nocla uses fermentation as the core of its product development, turning organic Danish raw materials and side streams into flavour solutions with natural complexity.
• Strong quality and certification base: The company operates under FSSC 22000, ISO 9001, and ISO 14001, supporting food safety, quality management, and environmental management.
• Certified B Corp: Nocla is a certified B Corp, which it presents as evidence of its commitment to social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.
• Own consumer-facing brand: Through Nordic Clarity, Nocla offers its own line of natural condiments for professional kitchens and foodservice.
• Private-label capability: Nocla supports co-development of retail-ready private label products, including a case study with Coop Danmark’s Irma Shoyu, an award-winning fermented soy sauce made on local legumes and grains.