Our Story. Your Journey.
Our Purpose
“To raise the standard of our foundational foods.”
How often do you think about the ingredients you use every single day?
Think about the foundations of your food – the ingredients that quietly shape every meal. Among them, oils and fats sit at the very center of everyday cooking, yet their journey from nature to plate is rarely questioned.
At The Avo Company (TAC), we believe that knowing what we consume, and where it comes from, should be front and center. When the story of an ingredient cannot be clearly told, it often leaves more questions than answers.
OUR STORY
Where It Began
It started with a simple question at home: What is in the oil that I cook with every day?
I am a mechanical engineer by training and spent nearly a decade working on product systems and quality problems. In that line of work, asking questions helps to understand how failures happen, identify root causes, and eventually lead to better solutions.
At home, that same mindset naturally carried into the kitchen. Cooking has always been a shared passion with my wife, an architect, who values precision just as much. Many grocery runs turned into curiosity – reading labels, debating ingredients, and questioning what really goes into the food we bring home. Over time, those small conversations turned into a habit of choosing better ingredients more consciously.
Eventually, that curiosity turned toward one ingredient used almost every day: cooking oil.
Conversations with our nutritionist and a search for better fats led us down a rabbit hole – learning about adulteration items on the store shelf, different processing methods, heat stability of oils, mislabeling, and the lack of clear quality benchmarks across the industry. Through our journey and experience, we built confidence that naturally refined avocado oil (produced without use of chemicals or solvents) was our go to good fat cook with.
Kalpesh Malpani, founder of The Avo Company, with Gayatri Malpani
The first Lamb Hass fruit from our young orchard in Vinchur, Nashik.
From Orchard To Oil
The journey eventually led back home to India.
Growing up, we never questioned the ingredients used in our food. Looking back, we realized that for many years our families relied on one refined seed oil that proudly claimed to be “heart healthy.” Today, many of us realise how common such marketing claims have become and how rarely we pause to ask whether the oils we cook with truly deserve that trust.
During our time in the US, naturally refined avocado oil was our go to cooking oil. Its neutral flavor worked well with everything we cooked, especially Indian tadkas where spices take the lead in defining the final flavor of a dish. Over time, we learned that our oil has good fats from avocado pulp, meals felt lighter, and we knew exactly how it was made.
When we began searching for a similar solution in India, naturally refined avocado oil was not available. So we took a step further starting a small orchard of high-quality Hass avocado trees in our hometown, in Vinchur, near Nashik – guided by a simple belief that better food begins with better sourcing and better systems.
Since then, our focus has remained simple:
- Single-origin fruits
- Minimal processing
- Mechanical extraction methods
- Global standards for quality testing
- Responsible production practices
Because when the foundation of food improves, everything built on top of it improves too.