Our story
We started Mrukku Bites because the snack aisle asked us to choose between food we liked and food that was good for us. We didn't want to choose.
The idea for this food business came out of our own search for healthy snacks. Every supermarket, and every snack aisle, is filled with a huge number of unhealthy options — loaded with sugar or saturated fat to make the snack tasty and more appealing.
Fresh snacks, made better
Most snacks sit on store shelves for months, losing freshness and requiring preservatives. We wanted to create something different: snacks baked fresh in small batches and shipped directly to you.
That's what Mrukku Bites was born from. We aspire to provide authentic South Indian snacks made fresh, never sitting on a shelf.
We bake what tradition fries
Almost every snack we grew up with in South India — murukku, kara sev, ribbon pakoda — is deep-fried. Frying is what gives them their texture, so moving them to an oven means rebuilding the recipe rather than just changing the heat source. For our chickpea snack, that meant reshaping the traditional noodle form into flat ribbons so the pieces bake evenly.
It takes a lot of trials. But it means we control exactly how much oil goes in, and we use Canadian-produced canola oil, which is high in omega-3 fatty acids.
Small batches, big freshness
We bake fresh batches throughout the week and ship orders directly from our kitchen. This direct-to-you approach means you always get snacks that were baked days ago, not months. That's where the real quality comes from — freshness that you can taste.
Where we are
We bake fresh in the Niagara region of Ontario and ship snacks across Canada.
What we stand for
Healthy
Preparing healthy food is our top priority. We carefully control the ingredients in every product to ensure quality nutrition.
Tasty
Taste perfected to traditional Indian flavours. We spend a long time reworking each recipe so the traditional taste survives the switch from frying to baking.
Small Batches
We bake small batches throughout the week and ship directly from our kitchen. This means you always get the freshest snacks, never sitting on a shelf for months.