ICYMI: As climate change threatens traditional coffee farming, Finnish scientists say they have produced coffee from cell cultures with an aroma and taste resembling the real thing ☕️ pic.twitter.com/eagZJqOy65

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Scientists at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland recently produced their first batch of cell-based coffee.

Researchers  used cellular agriculture, they placed coffee cell culture in the bioreactor, which is filled with a nutrient-rich medium, where the plant cells proliferate and grow biomas.

The team of scientists  developed a roasting process and then produced its first batch of cell-based coffee.

Cups of cellular coffee probably could not pass standard taste tests just yet, but had lots of potential for a multi-billion-dollar global industry. VTT’s team says that the final product has passed the taste and smell test in an evaluation by the institute’s trained sensory panel.

In Europe, lab-grown coffee would need to be approved as «Novel Food» before being marketed.

Source: Reuters on Twitter, 17/11/2021