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I don't think that growing coffee from cells will be scalable. It suffers the same problems that the cultured meat industry suffers. Ultimately, the most cost-
by Protostome 5y ago
I don't think that growing coffee from cells will be scalable. It suffers the same problems that the cultured meat industry suffers.
Ultimately, the most cost-effective (energy and scalability-wise) production method is synthesizing the aromatic molecules directly without going through cell cultures.
- patall 5y agoThere a very different techniques of cell culture. For cultured meat for example, the texture is very important which makes it expensive as you have to grow large groups of cells. If that is not necessary here, it will be much cheaper. An example: Quorn, grown in bioreactors since 1985. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorn
- Jensson 5y agoAnimal cells are very hard to keep alive since they are used to having blood and oxygen constantly pumping, that makes them expensive to farm. Plant cells on the other hand are very robust and survives harsh conditions, they are way cheaper to cultivate. So if anything is worth artificial cultivation like this, it is plants like Coffee where the part we eat is a very small part of the whole plant. Then we can skip the rest of the coffee plant and just grow the beans.