#10 – Cell culture technology: can Switzerland grow coffee? – Christian Schaub and Noémi...

“There is great potential in plant cell culture: you can grow not only locally but also in a very controlled way. Therefore, we have no fluctuation in prices,” says Christian Schaub, CEO and co-founder of Food Brewer. Alternative methods to produce coffee are high in demand as the supply of farm-grown coffee is increasingly less stable due to climate change, diseases, and supply chain disruptions. The start-up Food Brewer applies cell culture technology to cultivating coffee – not on farms, but in steel tanks. This approach is also known as lab-grown or soil-free coffee. In this episode, Christian and lead scientist Noémi Weiss explain how cell-cultured coffee is grown, what its advantages and challenges are, and which market share they predict it could reach by 2050.