Six Food Products From Shark Tank India Season 4, Tested and Rated

Introduction

Every year we round up the food products that have been appearing on Shark Tank India and put them through a proper taste test. This season’s batch covers a lot of ground: a delivery pizza brand claiming huge sales numbers, two healthy desserts from a company whose pitch went viral, a DIY sushi kit, a cocktail mixer, and single-serve honey sachets. Here are our honest first impressions, ratings, and who each product actually makes sense for.

Pizza Galleria Tandoori Paneer Pizza

Pizza Galleria claims to sell between four and six lakh pizzas a month, numbers that reportedly overtake Domino’s sales in some markets. Its signature offering is the Bahubali pizza, which was not available for delivery when we ordered, so we went with the Tandoori Paneer Pizza instead.

The first thing worth flagging is the packaging: the font selection feels cluttered, with six or seven different typefaces on one box. More surprisingly, the pizza itself looks remarkably like a Domino’s order, and the menu has strong similarities too, including a Farmhouse-style option and a choco lava dessert.

On taste, the tandoori flavor is genuinely on point and the chutney spread under the cheese gives it a very desi street-pizza character. The problem is quantity: some slices carried only a single cube of paneer, which is very little for a paneer pizza. After tasting it with a group of six, we settled on a 6 out of 10. The toppings are sparse and the overall experience feels average, especially with several homegrown Delhi brands now making better pizzas. If you are curious, it is worth a try, but we would personally stick to our usual order.

Cinema Kitchen Vegan Gluten-Free Fudge

Cinema Kitchen has been everywhere this season, with one of the most talked-about pitches of the show. Our own history with the brand goes back to 2020, and the team has always been prompt and apologetic whenever we reached out. Their sales have shot up dramatically this year, and the products explain why.

The vegan, gluten-free and grain-free fudge has an MRP of Rs 70 and comes in genuinely cute packaging. The taste itself is exceptional: the crunch of the hazelnut works beautifully, the texture is pleasant, and while we are normally very picky about healthy desserts, this one does not feel like it is compensating on sweetness. It tastes properly indulgent rather than merely healthy.

Cinema Kitchen Flourless Cookies

The flourless cookies from the same brand look wonderfully rustic, with a generous amount of chocolate on top. One note on the brand itself: the packaging of these two products uses very different color schemes, so there is a slight lack of cohesive brand identity between them.

The smell alone is incredible, and the flavor is very different from your classic chocolate chip cookie in the best way. For someone who is extremely picky about cookies, this one still earned a very strong reaction, and we would rate both Cinema Kitchen products 10 out of 10. If you are into healthy desserts and healthy snacking, these could genuinely satisfy your sweet cravings.

Shuffling Sushi Kit

We went into the Shuffling Sushi Kit with some skepticism, since ingredient-curated kits have been tried before with mixed results. But the branding here is beautiful, and the dish selection on the website is smart: sushi, lasagna, Korean ramen, all things that need hard-to-source sauces and ingredients. Getting all of that in one cute box genuinely helps.

The sushi kit includes sushi mat, mayo, sesame seeds, vinegar, sushi rice, soy sauce, and ginger, plus nori sheets and a tempura batter that we used for fried vegetables. Two issues cropped up: the wasabi listed on the packaging was missing from our kit, and the instructions on the box contradict the instruction sheet inside, including conflicting guidance on when to sprinkle the sesame seeds.

Rolling sushi as a first-timer was a lot of fun, though a single sushi mat limits the group-activity potential. We also got carried away and added far too much rice, which threw off the rice-to-vegetable proportion. The tempura vegetables were the better bite. We rated it 7 out of 10: a point off for the missing dessert kits we feel the range really needs, and for the missing and contradictory instructions, but the overall experience was genuinely enjoyable.

Butters Jamun Cumin Himalayan Black Pink Salt Cocktail Mixer

Full disclosure: we have worked with Butters before and have liked everything we tried from the brand, including a mango chili offering. The look, feel and vibe here are super premium, and of all the products tested this season this has to be the most well-thought-out branding and packaging.

The concept is simple: making cocktails at home becomes easy because you do not need to hunt down multiple ingredients. Everything is bottled in the right proportions, so all you do is add three capfuls of the mixer to your spirit. We tried the Jamun Cumin Himalayan Black Pink Salt mixer with 60ml of gin.

The drink came out quite tasty, with a little spice going on and a fruity jamun flavor, though this particular flavor was not our absolute favorite compared to others we have tried. The real win is that with just your alcohol and this mixer you can make a proper drink at home, and mocktails work very well too. For people who host at home and are passionate about cocktails, this is a genuinely great fix. We rate this flavor 7 out of 10.

Honey Twigs Mess-Free Honey

Honey Twigs single-serve honey sachets are an interesting concept: honey in premium packaging that you tear open and eat straight or squeeze into a drink. Even the plastic twig itself does not feel cheap, and the outer packaging is well designed.

Our sample was lemon-infused honey, and the taste was fine, nothing bad and nothing extraordinary. For someone who does not regularly consume honey, it is hard to get excited, though the tear-squeeze-eat format is clearly great for travel: toss a twig in your bag and empty it into your tea or hot water wherever you are. If you consume honey regularly and want a portable format, this could be a great fit. For us, the verdict is neutral.

Overall Buying Advice

If you want the safest bets from this batch, the Cinema Kitchen desserts are the clear standouts, with both the fudge and the flourless cookies earning top marks from a self-confessed picky dessert eater. The Shuffling Sushi Kit and the Butters cocktail mixer are strong picks for people who host: one for a fun group cooking activity, the other for effortless home cocktails. The pizza is worth a try out of curiosity, and the honey twigs make sense mainly if portability matters to you.

Conclusion

This season’s lineup shows how far Indian food brands have come on packaging and concept, even where execution has gaps. Cinema Kitchen delivers on both taste and health credentials, Butters and Shuffling solve real convenience problems for home hosts, and Pizza Galleria and Honey Twigs show that a strong story still needs the product details to back it up. Part two of this taste test is coming next week, so stay tuned.