You may like your coffee with oat milk and a touch of sweetener, but have you ever thought that one day you might be drinking your coffee without the coffee? Atomo Coffee Inc has, because of one surprising reason. Climate change has made coffee beans an endangered species. This food tech start-up has created coffeeless coffee out from upcycled ingredients, meaning the parts of plants that used to be discarded. They are using chemical process to make sunflower seed husks and watermelon seeds mimic the flavor and taste of coffee minus the bean, but with the caffeine.
If coffeeless coffee sounds like the antithesis of the real thing, you are not alone in thinking that. But this company is preparing for a day when coffee beans are no longer readily available by creating a product that is identical in taste to coffee but contains none of the crops it s named after. Americans drink more than 400 million cups of coffee a day and about 110-120 million bags of coffee are produced in