Our Values

Food is LOVE.

At Cozy Koji, we believe that eating is an act of self-care.

Unlike other self-care rituals. eating is not something you have to add into your daily routine. We all have to eat to live, so the choices that we make to nourish ourselves each day are transformed into an act of self-love.

It really is that simple. And simplicity is the heart of our business.

Flavour-FULL & Effort-LESS.

Have you ever had a first bite of something, and thought, ”hmmmm…there is something missing…”? It is this missing something that makes us reach for the bag of chips over the bowl of carrot sticks. This something is known as “umami”.

Japanese food culture defines this fifth flavour profile (adding it to the more commonly known flavours - salty, sweet, sour and bitter) as a certain satisfying savouriness, found in foods like beef, mushrooms, and cheese (and yes, potato chips). We crave it.

Foods fermented by Koji are a healthy source of umami. Adding koji products as a base ingredient to a marinade, a soup, or a sauce is way to add an instant flavour bomb.

At Cozy Koji, we craft delicious and nutritious soup starters, sauces, and marinades so that you can feed your family with ease. Our mission is to make eating healthy flavour-FULL and effort-LESS.

Get to KNOW and USE koji.

We have been harnessing the goodness of koji to feed our loved ones and to improve our gut health. Koji - an essential element of Japanese fermented foods - has always been a staple in our family kitchens. In the West, we are familiar with miso, but koji is a relatively new ingredient here.

Cozy Koji is excited to introduce you to this incredible ingredient by:

• providing useful nutritional information about the benefits of koji

• offering you easy, accessible recipes that feature koji-based ingredients

• stocking your kitchen with ready-made koji-based flavourful meal-starters and sauces

Koji is for EVERY BODY.

We know that feeding yourself and your family healthfully can often be a challenge. Supermarket shortcuts are often loaded with salt, sugar, saturated fats, and mystery chemical compounds you can’t pronounce. At Cozy Koji, we offer meal-starters and sauces that are EASY and SIMPLE to use at home. We make a bowl of ramen soup as easy as tearing open an instant noodle package, but with wholesome, nutritious ingredients.

We want EVERY BODY to enjoy Cozy Koji: grown-ups and kids, vegetarians and vegans, junk food lovers and health nuts, students and singles, conscious carnivores and curious foodies.

Support LOCAL and SUSTAINABLE.

Wherever possible, we source raw ingredients that are local and organic. We partner with Canadian Kelp in Bamfield, BC who provide us with kelp and kombu and Brightside Blueberries & Such in Duncan, BC who provide us with garlic with no synthetic fertilizers nor any pesticides.

We offer our sauces and starters in reusable mason jars so that you can repurpose them with your own creations. All our packaging are biodegradable and recyclable as well.