The story so far
it starts with
A rubber stamp
When we were 11, a well-known Delhi dermatologist looked at the pigmentation on our skin, picked up a rubber stamp and pressed it onto our prescription: AVOID DAIRY.
In our house, that was unthinkable. Milk at breakfast, chai all day, haldi doodh at night. Our mother gave us milk because she loved us. Now a stamp said it didn't suit us.
the search
Everything tasted like a compromise
Years later, we went looking for a dessert we could actually enjoy. What we found was expensive, hard to find, or tasted like someone had apologised halfway through making it.
So we stopped looking and started building.
behind the scenes
How we built it
More than three years of trials on oat and soy bases with Dr Eram at Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, a dairy technologist and food technologists. Then a home at the NIFTEM pilot plant in Kundli, with the machinery a dairy uses and students who wanted to build this with us.
Today we make our own oat milk and our own sauces there, in a facility certified to HACCP, ISO 22000:2018 and ISO 9001:2015.
the name
Why 1.5 Degree
1.5°C is the warming limit the world agreed not to cross, and 2024 was likely the first full year above it. Plant bases like oat and soy have a far smaller carbon footprint than dairy milk, so a dessert made from plants is a small, everyday way to stay on the right side of that line.
We put it in our name so we would never forget why we started.
non-negotiables
What we stand for
Ahimsa first: every product is vegetarian, with no animal ingredients in our recipes. Taste comes first on the spoon, because nobody switches for a lecture. We tell you what is in every cup, including what we are still fixing.
And we are for everyone, against no one. We respect dairy farmers and the families who love milk. We simply want nobody left out of dessert.
So yeah, that's 1.5 Degree
Desserts made from plants, vegetarian, and good enough that nobody at the table has to pass. We tell you what's in every cup, including the parts we're still working on.
From the founders
A note from our founders
That stamp could have meant a childhood without dessert. Instead it gave us a question: why should anyone have to choose between what suits them and what they love?
1.5 Degree is our answer, a dessert nobody has to pass on. We hope it makes it to your table.
Vedansh Goyal & Anagh Goyal
Founders
