New beanless 'coffee' emerges but does it taste any good?

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Start-ups launch drinks that look and taste like coffee but they say are better for the environment.

In the same way animal cells can be cultivated in a bioreactor and harvested to produce meat cell products – so cells extracted from coffee plants could be similarly grown, then fermented and roasted to produce a brew.

Over the past year the bean-free coffee products of Dutch start-up Northern Wonder, founded in 2021, has secured space on supermarket shelves in the Netherlands and Switzerland.

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Topics: Deforestation Coffee Companies Seeds Beanless Conventional Ingredients Says Growing Atomo Caffeine

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Published On: 2024-09-12 @ 23:02:19 (20 hours ago)

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