It could eventually cut down on the production of traditional chocolate, which degrades soil and requires much fertilizer and pesticides
Tell us: have you fallen in love this year?
Would you eat lab-grown chocolate?
I requested a sample from California Cultured, a Sacramento-based company. Its chocolate, not yet commercially available, is made with techniques that have previously been used to synthesize other bioactive products like certain plant-derived pharmaceuticals for commercial sale.
A few days later, it arrives. The morsel, barely bigger than a coffee bean, is supposed to be the flavor equivalent of a 70%-80% dark chocolate. I tear open its sealed packet and a chocolatey aroma escapes – so far, so good. I pop it in my mouth.
