Lab-grown Chocolate
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Lab-grown Chocolate
It seems even chocolate is not safe from the “lets make food in a lab” crowd.
Not content with using seed oils to make chocolate, instead of cocoa butter … Startups are now working on cocoa ingredients grown from plant cells in bioreactors, and some say it could be on the market by the end of 2026.
The big question for me is simple: are we going to be told this is “just the same as cocoa” before there is any real long-term safety data?
Real cocoa comes from a plant, a soil system, fermentation, microbes, climate, and nature doing what nature does. Can a tank really copy all of that?
Would you eat lab-grown chocolate?
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