The MayaNut Company was founded on October 4, 2025, because August Kokus wanted to realize his vision to create something lasting in the world while helping advance Alicastrum (Brosimum alicastrum) as a modern food tree and introducing MayaNut™ Flour to American kitchens.
The company is built around clarity, quality, and long-term purpose: to present MayaNut™ Flour as a real modern pantry ingredient while supporting broader awareness of the Alicastrum tree behind it.
August Kokus is the Founder and CEO of The MayaNut Company, Inc. He founded the company on October 4, 2025, because he wanted to realize his vision to create something lasting in the world while helping move Alicastrum into clearer modern use through MayaNut™ Flour.
His work began with a deep interest in plants, but over time one species stood apart. Alicastrum offered history, usefulness, and long-term potential, yet remained under-recognized in modern consumer contexts. The MayaNut Company was created to change that through careful product development, presentation, and education.
The MayaNut Company exists to give Alicastrum and MayaNut™ a durable modern identity. Rather than treating the ingredient as a novelty, the goal is to establish a clear standard around cultivation, roasting, milling, presentation, and understanding so more people can recognize its value.
The work combines agriculture, product development, branding, and long-range planning. The intention is to build a company and ingredient identity that feels refined, dependable, and lasting.
The mission of The MayaNut Company is to help introduce MayaNut™ Flour clearly to modern kitchens while supporting broader awareness, cultivation, and long-term continuity of Alicastrum (Brosimum alicastrum).
That means presenting the ingredient with strong standards, consistent language, and a product-forward identity that people can trust and return to.
Alicastrum (Brosimum alicastrum) is the tropical food tree behind MayaNut™. It belongs to the Moraceae family and has a deep history of use across Mesoamerica.
The tree is also known regionally as ramón or ramon, ojoche, capomo, guáimaro or guaimaro, oox or ox, ujuxte, and masica. Its seeds can be dried, roasted, and milled into a smooth ingredient well suited to both traditional and modern recipes.
The long-term vision is to help Alicastrum remain present in the world through continued recognition, cultivation, and human use. The company is meant to serve as a stable vehicle for expanding awareness of the tree and strengthening the identity of MayaNut™ Flour.
The broader aim is lasting usefulness: a brand people recognize, an ingredient people actually use, and a food tree that continues to matter far into the future.
MayaNut™ Flour is a roasted, finely milled powder made from the seeds of the Alicastrum tree. It is positioned for smoothies, açaí bowls, baking, warm drinks, oatmeal, and everyday cooking.
The goal is not simply to mention an unusual botanical ingredient, but to make MayaNut™ Flour feel clear, useful, and genuinely at home in modern kitchens.
The company’s visual and conceptual language is rooted in creation, growth, brightness, and ascent. Among its artistic influences is the composer Alexander Scriabin, especially his Symphony No. 3, The Divine Poem, whose feeling of emergence and radiance echoes the broader creative direction behind The MayaNut Company. That sense is further strengthened by the triumphant power of the finale of Scriabin’s Symphony No. 2.
Scriabin is referenced as artistic inspiration only. No affiliation or endorsement is implied.
