Beta opens summer 2026

Be one of the first 200 to try LOKA.

Two snacks. Three ingredients in every bag. Millet puffs and popped sorghum, both made with just the grain, extra-virgin olive oil, and pink Himalayan salt. The snacks the food industry forgot how to make.

From a food scientist who spent 14 years on the inside of the food industry. BS + MS, Food Science · Career in R&D and product development

Free. Three bags, both snacks in the mix, shipped to your door. One ask: tell us if we got it right.

loka
millet puffs
Made with olive oil
& pink Himalayan salt
3 oz · 90 g Gluten-free
loka
popped sorghum
Made with olive oil
& pink Himalayan salt
3 oz · 90 g Gluten-free
Certified · Inspected · Honest
Non-GMO
Gluten
Free
Certified
Vegan
Whole
Grain
100%
No Artificial
Ingredients
K
Kosher
Pending

Each certification is in progress with its issuing organization. Final licensed marks will appear on every retail bag at launch.

Ancient grain
Three ingredients
Gluten-free
Made with olive oil
Baked, never fried
The Lineup

Two snacks. One promise.

Just three ingredients in each bag — the grain, extra-virgin olive oil, and pink Himalayan salt. Two distinct snacks, made from two of the oldest grains your kitchen hasn't tried yet.

loka
millet puffs
Made with olive oil
& pink Himalayan salt
3 oz · 90 g Gluten-free
Barnyard millet · ancient grain #01
Millet Puffs

"Barnyard millet, olive oil, pink Himalayan salt. The 9,000-year-old grain that almost disappeared, baked into a puff your kid will steal."

Light · airy crunch 4g protein 120 cal / oz
loka
popped sorghum
Made with olive oil
& pink Himalayan salt
3 oz · 90 g Gluten-free
Sorghum · ancient grain #02
Popped Sorghum

"Whole sorghum kernels, popped under heat, finished with olive oil and pink Himalayan salt. Hollow, satisfying, no piece stuck in your teeth."

Big bite · popcorn-like 3g fiber 110 cal / oz
Why we're doing this

We didn't invent these snacks. We just stopped messing with them.

The average American snack has 22 ingredients. Eight of them have a number in the name. Both LOKA bags have three. Two grains humans farmed for thousands of years — barnyard millet and sorghum, older than most of the food on your shelf and gentler on your body — each one baked with extra-virgin olive oil and a little pink Himalayan salt. The kind of label your grandmother could read out loud, in snacks the food industry can't replicate without adding seven things it shouldn't.

01

Two ancient grains, both here to stay

Barnyard millet and sorghum — not corn, not wheat, not even chickpea. Both drought-resilient, naturally gluten-free, iron-rich, slow-digesting. Two grains humans farmed for thousands of years before the American food system replaced them with cheaper carbs.

02

Real olive oil. Real salt.

Extra-virgin olive oil — single-origin, cold-pressed. Pink Himalayan salt — hand-mined, mineral-rich, never bleached. Two ingredients you'd recognize from your own kitchen. Zero you'd need to Google.

03

Baked, never fried

No deep fryer, no seed-oil bath, no extruder pellets reconstituted with starch. The millet is baked dry, then finished with olive oil. The way crisp things were made before machines made them shelf-stable for a year.

04

Nothing you can't pronounce

No maltodextrin, no "natural flavor," no seed-oil cocktail, no malic acid, no disodium anything. Just the three things on the front of the bag — baked in small batches, the way good food still gets made.

The 200-household beta

Both products. Free. All we want is your honest take.

We're picking 200 households across the US to try both LOKA snacks before we launch. We use your feedback to lock the recipes, the packaging, the salt level, the price. Then we go to retail. You get to say you were here first — for both.

  • 1
    A starter set, shipped free. Three bags total — both launch SKUs, mixed. Try the millet puffs, try the popped sorghum, decide which one ends up in your lunchbox vs. your desk drawer.
  • 2
    A 10-minute feedback session. One short survey after you've finished a bag. Optional 15-min call if you have a lot to say.
  • 3
    Direct line to the founder. Ven reads every survey and replies to anyone who wants to chat. Not a marketing email — a real conversation.
  • 4
    Your name in the founding-household roll. If you want it, we list beta households (first name + city) on the site at launch.
Beta spots remaining
~187 of 200
First-come, first-considered.
We balance for geography & household type.

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