Why hazelnut tablets come from Türkiye
Hazelnut is to the Black Sea coast what pistachio is to Gaziantep: the orchards around Ordu, Giresun and Trabzon supply the majority of the hazelnuts traded in the world. A Turkish chocolate maker buys the nut close to home, roasts it and puts it into the tablet whole rather than as paste. That is the point of the line. The buyer sees the nuts in the break, and the tablet tastes of roasted hazelnut rather than of flavouring.
The line: three chocolates, one format
The tablet comes in three chocolates with the same whole roasted hazelnuts: milk (reference AF-CH-013), white (AF-CH-014) and dark (AF-CH-015). All three are 100 g tablets. Because the format is shared, a buyer can mix the three on one order and give the shelf a full colour block without adding a new pack size, a new case size or a new pallet plan. The chocolate page lists every tablet and bar we make beside them.
Case, pallet and container
Forty tablets go into one case of 30.4 × 17.5 × 15.5 cm, 4 kg net and about 4.6 kg gross. A Euro pallet of 80 × 120 cm takes 14 cases per layer and nine layers: 126 cases, 5,040 tablets, 155 cm high, 504 kg net. A 20-foot high-cube container holds 11 pallets, or 55,440 tablets; a 40-foot high-cube holds 22 pallets, or 110,880 tablets. Those figures are the same whether the wrapper is ours or yours, so the loading plan can be agreed before the artwork is finished. The pallets page shows how the chocolate pallets sit next to the other lines.
Under your own label
For private label we run the same tablet in your wrapper. The minimum is 1,000 kg per line, which at 100 g is 10,000 tablets, or about two pallets. Your side is the artwork and the label text for your market; our side is the recipe, the production and the data the label needs: ingredients, allergens and nutrition values. Hazelnut is an allergen everywhere, and milk is one too, so the allergen panel is checked line by line before printing. The private label page walks through the steps from the first brief to the first loaded pallet.
Shelf life and temperature
The tablets carry a shelf life of 12 months, which can reach 18 months when storage conditions are kept. Chocolate does not like heat: in the warm months the container travels refrigerated, and the cold chain has to hold at the importer’s warehouse too. Whole nuts make a tablet more forgiving of handling than a filled bar, but a bloomed surface is still a returned case, so the storage condition is agreed together with the order.
How an order travels
We make to order and do not sell from stock. The usual basis is FOB Mersin in US dollars, by full container or full truck. Hazelnut tablets can share that container with other lines from our range: Turkish delight, dragées or pistachio spread, each on its own pallets. That is what the mixed container is for. For Europe a part load is possible, with one full pallet per product as the minimum. Every line is made in our own factory at Başpınar OSB, Gaziantep, where our factory has been exporting since 2002; the Antep Foods brand was founded in 2025. Send the references and the quantities, and the written offer follows within two working days.
Are the hazelnuts whole or chopped?
Whole roasted hazelnuts, set into the tablet. That is the difference you see in the break.
Can milk, white and dark go on one order?
Yes. All three are 100 g tablets, 40 per case, so they share the case, the pallet plan and the container.
What is the private-label minimum?
1,000 kg per line: 10,000 tablets of 100 g, about two pallets.
