The Problem With “Healthy” Food Nobody Talks About

Hardika Kohli, founder of Mokaki Foods, built her sauce brand while working full-time, driven by curiosity about why sauces are either tasty but filled with questionable ingredients or healthy but bland. She sees crowded markets as validation, not competition, and focuses on improving everyday products like her jaggery ketchup, which replaces refined sugar and artificial additives. She advises consumers to ignore front-of-pack marketing and read ingredient lists on the back instead. Recipe development, she admits, was the easy part the real challenges are packaging, shelf-life, logistics, and manufacturing hygiene. Looking ahead, she wants Mokaki to become a household name that makes ingredient transparency normal, with a community-first approach where sales follow naturally. Stay tuned for more such insightful conversations. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chainet.substack.com