happyhivekids

Storage guide · scan, find, store

Shop

Happy Hive · freshness & ingredients

What’s inside, and how to keep it fresh

Every ingredient in every product, written out in full — including the ones we’d be allowed to leave off the pack. Plus how to store food made without preservatives.

Find your product below and keep it happy, fresh and delicious.

Find your productWhy Happy Hive?
  • No palm oil or preservatives
  • Sweetened with coconut sugar
  • Millet nutrition

Find your product

7 products

We open our own compound ingredients. Anything marked in honey below is a sub-ingredient we’ve chosen to declare even though the rules would let us leave it off the pack.

Nut ButtersCocoa Peanut Butter

50 g · 225 g · 500 g

Cocoa Peanut Butter

Creamy. Chocolatey. Just 3 ingredients.

What’s inside

  • Peanuts
  • Cocoa Powder
  • Coconut Sugar

That’s the whole list. No palm oil, no emulsifier, no added salt — nothing to stop it separating.

Contains — Peanuts

How to store me

  • Oil on topNormal — it means there’s no emulsifier in it. Stir it back through and it stays mixed for a good while.
  • Between usesStore it upside down — the oil redistributes on its own.
  • Best storedCool, dark cupboard. Refrigerating slows separation but makes it hard to spread; room temperature is fine if you’re getting through it.
  • AlwaysA dry spoon. Water in the jar is what spoils a natural nut butter.
Room temp is fine

Good to know — Made with 79% peanuts — 21 g protein and 8.3 g fibre per 100 g. 9 months unopened.

“Oil on top? That’s natural. Stir me, don’t worry about me.”

CookiesMillet Coconut Cookies

75 g

Millet Coconut Cookies

No preservatives. So your cookies need a little love.

What’s inside

  • Sprouted Ragi
  • Coconut
  • Bajra
  • Brown Chana
  • Roasted Bengal Gram
  • Amaranth
  • Coconut Sugar
  • Dates Powder (dates, rice flour)
  • Butter
  • Peanuts
  • Peanut Butter (peanuts, cocoa powder, coconut sugar)
  • Pumpkin Seeds
  • Baking Powder (cream of tartar, baking soda)
  • Baking Soda

Baked, never fried. Sweetened with coconut sugar + dates. No refined sugar, no maida, no preservatives.

Contains — Peanuts · Milk — butter

How to store me

  • After openingSeal the pack and keep it somewhere cool and dry.
  • Not the fridgeHumidity is what takes the bite out of them.
  • Best within10–12 days of opening for maximum crunch. Still perfectly good after — just less snap.
Not the fridge

Good to know — Yes, the coconut cookies contain peanuts — read the list, not just the name. Suitable for ages 1 to 101.

“Soft cookie? Air got in first. Airtight really means airtight.”

CookiesMillet Chocolate Cookies

75 g

Millet Chocolate Cookies

No preservatives. So your cookies need a little love.

What’s inside

  • Sprouted Ragi
  • Oats
  • Little Millet
  • Brown Chana
  • Roasted Bengal Gram
  • Coconut Sugar
  • Dates Powder (dates, rice flour)
  • Cocoa Powder
  • Peanut Butter (peanuts, cocoa powder, coconut sugar)
  • Butter
  • Almond
  • Cashew
  • Baking Powder (cream of tartar, baking soda)
  • Baking Soda

Baked, never fried. Real cocoa, coconut sugar and dates. No refined sugar, no maida, no preservatives.

Contains — Peanuts · Tree nuts — almond, cashew · Milk — butter · Oats — may contain gluten

How to store me

  • After openingSeal the pack properly. With no preservatives, moisture is what softens a cookie — not time.
  • Best storedCool, dry shelf. Not the fridge — fridge humidity turns them soft.
  • Best within10–12 days of opening for maximum crunch. Still perfectly good after — just less snap.
Not the fridge

Good to know — Batches can taste slightly different across the year — small-batch whole ingredients, no flavourings to paper over it.

“Crunch fades fast without preservatives — that’s how you know it’s real.”

BreakfastMillet Chocolate Pancake Mix

150 g

Millet Chocolate Pancake Mix

Keep me dry and I’ll take care of breakfast.

What’s inside

  • Ragi
  • Jowar
  • Oats
  • Little Millet
  • Brown Top Millet
  • Rice
  • Coconut Sugar
  • Cocoa Powder
  • Flax Seeds
  • Baking Powder (cream of tartar, baking soda)
  • Baking Soda

Five millets + oats, sweetened with coconut sugar. No refined sugar, no added preservatives.

Contains — Oats — may contain gluten · No nuts, no dairy in the mix

How to store me

  • After openingAirtight, cool and dry. Flours pick up moisture and odours from whatever sits next to them on the shelf.
  • Use withinWeeks of opening — the raising agents lose strength once air gets in, and your pancakes rise less.
  • Batter tipMix just before cooking rather than resting the batter. Cream-of-tartar leavening acts fast; a batter left standing goes flat.
  • AlwaysA clean, dry spoon.
No fridge needed

Good to know — Mix 1 cup with ½ cup milk — no extra milk needed. 9 months unopened.

“One wet spoon can spoil the whole pack. Dry spoon, every time.”

SavouryMillet Namkeen — Desi Masala

75 g

Millet Namkeen — Desi Masala

Baked, never fried. No chemicals keeping us artificially crisp.

What’s inside

  • Jowar Crispies (puffed jowar)
  • Bajra Crispies (puffed bajra)
  • Pumpkin Seeds
  • Sunflower Seeds
  • Black Pepper
  • Cinnamon
  • Coriander Powder
  • Cloves
  • Jeera
  • Mint Leaves
  • Dry Ginger Powder
  • Himalayan Pink Salt
  • Black Salt
  • Hing
  • Dry Mango Powder
  • Chilli Powder
  • Turmeric
  • Rice Bran Oil (a light spray — nothing is fried)

No palm oil, no preservatives, no artificial colours. Source of fibre — 13.9 g protein and 10.1 g fibre per 100 g.

Contains — No added peanuts or dairy · Wheat — only if your hing is compounded

How to store me

  • After openingClip or seal the pack the moment you’ve served. Baked snacks with no preservatives lose crunch to air faster than fried ones.
  • Best storedCool, dry, out of direct sun. Never the fridge.
  • Best within7–10 days of opening.
  • Gone soft?Five minutes in a low oven brings the crunch back.
Never the fridge

Good to know — The oil isn’t from frying — it’s a light rice-bran spray so the masala sticks. Compare our fat per 100 g with any fried namkeen.

“Gone a little soft? Five minutes in a low oven brings the crunch back.”

SavouryMillet Namkeen — Tangy Tomato

75 g

Millet Namkeen — Tangy Tomato

Baked, never fried. No chemicals keeping us artificially crisp.

What’s inside

  • Jowar Crispies (puffed jowar)
  • Ragi Crispies (puffed ragi)
  • Peanut Flakes
  • Tomato
  • Garlic
  • Himalayan Pink Salt
  • Black Salt
  • Coriander Powder
  • Onion
  • Ginger
  • Dry Mango Powder
  • Chilli Powder
  • Rice Bran Oil (a light spray — nothing is fried)

No palm oil, no preservatives, no artificial colours.

Contains — Peanuts

How to store me

  • After openingSeal immediately — air is the enemy of a baked crispie.
  • Best storedCool, dry shelf. Never the fridge.
  • Best within7–10 days of opening.
  • Softened?Five minutes in a low oven and it’s back.
Never the fridge

Good to know — Baked, then dressed with a light spray of rice bran oil — nothing here is fried.

“Airtight really means airtight — no chemicals are keeping us crisp.”

PantryCoconut Sugar

400 g

Coconut Sugar

Minimally processed sweetness from coconut palm sap.

What’s inside

  • Coconut Sugar

One ingredient. It’s the sweetener in everything else we make — this is simply a bag of it for your own kitchen.

Contains — No declared allergens

How to store me

  • ClumpingNormal — and a good sign. There’s no anti-caking agent in here. Break it up with a spoon.
  • Best storedAirtight, away from the stove. It draws in moisture from steam.
  • In bakingSwaps for refined sugar measure for measure. It browns a little faster, so check a few minutes early.
No fridge needed

Good to know — To prevent curdling, don’t add sugar to boiling milk.

“Clumps? That’s moisture, not a defect. Keep me dry.”

Why this page says more than the pack

Under India’s labelling rules, when an ingredient is itself made of several things and makes up less than 5% of the finished product, its contents don’t have to be listed. That’s how “spices and condiments” ends up on so many packs — one line standing in for a dozen ingredients nobody outside the factory ever sees.

There’s a second rule too. An additive that arrives inside a bought-in ingredient — a preservative in a paste, say — doesn’t have to appear on the label at all, as long as it isn’t doing a job in the finished food. It’s why you’ll see “no added preservatives” so often. The word doing the work is added.

We’re not accusing anyone of breaking the rules. But we’d rather not use them. Our dates powder carries a little rice flour to stop it clumping, so we print it. Our baking powder is cream of tartar rather than a phosphate, so we print that too. If it’s in the food, it should be on this page.

Questions parents ask us

If there are no preservatives, how long does it actually last?

Every pack carries a best-before date, and unopened, it holds to that date. What changes faster is texture after opening — a baked crispie without preservatives softens in air more quickly than a fried, preserved one. It’s still perfectly good to eat; it’s just at its best sooner. That’s the trade we’ve made.

There’s oil in the namkeen. I thought it wasn’t fried?

It isn’t. The rice bran oil is a light spray applied so the masala has something to hold on to. Conventional namkeen is deep-fried and soaks up a great deal of oil in the process; ours is baked and then dressed. Compare the fat per 100 g on our pack with any fried namkeen and the difference is plain.

Why coconut sugar instead of regular sugar?

It’s less processed and stays closer to its natural form, which is the whole principle we build on. It also tastes faintly of caramel, which is why our cookies taste the way they do. We use it in everything, and we sell it on its own for your kitchen.

My child has an allergy. What should I check?

Each product above lists what it contains. Please read that list rather than relying on the product name — our coconut cookies contain peanuts, and our cookies contain dairy butter. If anything is unclear, write to us before you serve it and we’ll answer the same day.

Why do batches taste slightly different?

Because we make in small batches with whole ingredients rather than standardised ones. Ragi from one harvest isn’t identical to the next, and we don’t use flavourings to paper over it. Within a batch it’s consistent; across a year, it moves a little.

Never in any Happy Hive product

Not in one product, not in some. Not in any.

  • Refined sugar
  • Palm oil
  • Preservatives
  • Artificial colours
  • Artificial flavours
  • Maltodextrin
  • Anti-caking agents
  • Anything fried

A little note from Udita

A little note from Udita

“If something stays perfectly crisp for months after the pack has been opened, it’s worth asking what is keeping it that way.

Ours won’t. And we’re quite happy about that.”

No preservatives. No shortcuts. Just food that behaves like real food.

Made without preservatives.
Made with love.
Store with care.

Still have a question about your product?

Ask us on WhatsApp

Same community link as on happyhivekids.in — we reply on most days, usually quickly.