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Yes. Single-ingredient — just Chaunsa mango, no porcine processing aids, no alcohol-based extracts. Once we lock our final Pakistani processor we'll publish their halal certifying body's name + cert number here.
Really. Chaunsa mango is 26-28% natural sugar — about 40% sweeter than the Thai cultivars most commodity dried mango is made from. Adding sugar would be an insult to the fruit. The drying process uses a Chaunsa-juice osmotic pre-step OR vacuum drying to preserve texture without sucrose. No syrup. No glucose. No anything.
Yes. No SO₂ at any step. Sulphites are the industry-standard preservative for commercial dried fruit (they keep it bright orange and shelf-stable for 18+ months). We skip them and accept a more honest amber color + a 12-month shelf life.
Hot-air drying at 50–60°C, target water activity ≤ 0.6 (the science-y way of saying "soft but shelf-stable"). Pre-treated with a Chaunsa-juice osmotic soak — or, if our final supplier is set up for it, vacuum-dried with no soak at all. The process recipe lives with our Pakistani processor; we publish the result, not the kitchen.
June 2026. That's when the White Chaunsa harvest peaks in Multan. We won't ship a Chaunsa product made from off-season fruit.
Phase 1 is Pakistan-domestic. Phase 2 (Q4 2026 target) opens US + Canada. UK + Gulf are Phase 3. If you're outside Pakistan and want to know when your country opens, sign up for the waitlist — the welcome email lets you tell us where you are.
Pakistan: 3–5 business days. US + Canada: 7–14 business days once Phase 2 opens. We don't air-freight at launch — the carbon math doesn't earn it on a Pakistani-brand product.
12 months from pack date if you keep it cool and dry. Once you open the pouch: 4 weeks if you re-seal it properly. Sealed in a Karachi pantry at 35°C? Maybe 6 months. Be honest with yourself yaar.
No. Shelf-stable. Some people refrigerate dried mango for a firmer chew — totally fine, but not required.
It's the Urdu word for the wooden crate mangoes ride in from the orchard to the market. The literal box. We named the brand after the box because the box is the part the diaspora forgot — and that's where the season actually lives.
Because they're the best. Read the long version in /origin.
Humza in Toronto. Rayhan chachu in Karachi. Family. More in /origin.