01 / Novera Foods / Est. 2026

The original crunch. Nothing else.

A water lily seed, popped dry in a hot pan and then left alone. Dry roasted. Full of crunch. Nothing unnecessary.

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Hand-harvested from high-altitude wetlands. Nothing added.

A bowl of roasted makhana, popped fox nuts, scattered and floating
Tasting note

Toasted milk, a dry finish, and a crack that does not hang about.

02 / What is makhana

The seed that sleeps at the bottom of a lake.

Makhana grows underwater. The seed sits in the silt of still, high-altitude wetlands, ponds that freeze over in winter and run clear again in spring, and it is lifted out by hand, one slow pass at a time.

Then it is dried, graded, and dropped into a pan hot enough to turn the starch inside it to steam. The seed pops. A hard black bead becomes something light enough to sit on your palm without you noticing.

No oil goes near it. No coating, no dusting, no second ingredient hiding behind a comma on the back of the packet.

Makhana is the popped seed of a water lily. The rest of the plant stays under water.

Cross-section of a makhana seed A hand-drawn diagram: an outer shell arc with a break in it, an ivory kernel inside, and a starch core at the centre, with labels. Shell Ivory kernel Starch core Water lily
1. Every seed is a closed story.

03 / Why Novera

Most of the work was leaving things out.

01

No oil. No salt. No smoke and mirrors.

Makhana is popped dry. Heat does the work, not fat.

02

Nothing to declare

One ingredient on the packet. One.

03

The quiet crunch

It cracks, then melts, then gets out of the way.

04 / Nutrition / Per 30 g serving

Fuel without the fanfare.

Typical values for plain roasted makhana. Final pack figures are confirmed at launch.

Protein

9.7 g

19% RI

Fibre

14.5 g

48% RI

Calories

105 kcal

5% RI

RI = reference intake of an average adult (8400 kJ / 2000 kcal).

05 / Flavours

Five ways to meet it.

One seed. Five finishes. Nothing fried, ever.
Also known as Mrs Makhana.

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Novera makhana, Peri Peri, 30 g pouch

01 / Flavour

Peri Peri

A slow heat that asks for another handful.

Every seed is a closed story. Roasting opens it.

  1. 2023 / The question

    We wanted the crunch without the fryer. Everything we tried came back oily, over-salted, or dusted in something we could not pronounce.

  2. 2024 / The water

    We went to the source. High-altitude wetlands. Ponds that freeze in winter. Families who have harvested this seed by hand for generations.

  3. 2025 / The pan

    We spent a year on heat and timing. Too little and the seed stays a bead. Too much and all you taste is the pan.

  4. 2026 / The bag

    Small batch, one ingredient, five finishes, and a launch date we are counting down to.

07 / The waitlist

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