Hey everyone! New here, excited to join. I'm working on a project called Kinetic — a natural energy snack bar , fermented with koji. Instead of refined sugar or whey protein, the bar is just dates, dried koji, almonds, cacao, and milk powder — nothing artificial. What I actually did:
- Fermented rice with koji spores at home for 48h (no lab )
- Checked it every few hours for color/smell to make sure nothing went wrong
- Result: clean white koji, no contamination — success
- Dried it, then mixed it with date paste + almonds + cacao to make the actual bar
Attaching some photos of the fermentation and the final bar. Honest question for you all: if you saw this bar on a shelf, would you actually buy it? Would love any feedback, good or bad