Diffusion Science radio: Chocolate cultured, whole, and traditional

Chocolate cultured, whole, and traditional


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News of healthier, more sustainable chocolate, and chocolate cultured in a bioreactor.
Listen to chef and biochemist Galit Segev from 2011, talk about the science of chocolate.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Caco pods on a tree dripping chocolate into a beaker

Scientists Discover More Sustainable ‘Healthy Chocolate’

Lab-developed chocolate passes the taste test – SWI swissinfo.ch
Now the first chocolate comes from the laboratory – 20 Minuten



California Cultured signs 10-year agreement with Japan’s largest chocolate company – Vegconomist

Kokomodo backs cell-based Cacao to solve the Cacao crisis – Food Navigator
What is Cell-based chocolate and how is it made? – CocoTerra
Is Cell-Based Chocolate the Next Big Food Trend? – Xtalks
Food Brewer – Official Site
Fazer explores cell-cultured Cacao as an option for the future of chocolate – Fazer Group
Fazer develops cell-based Cacao to sustain chocolate impacted by climate change – Food Ingredients First

Sampling California's first lab-grown chocolate | Good Food – KCRW


Inside the mouth-watering race to master lab-grown chocolate - New Scientist (2025-04-14)
Celleste Bio scaling cell-cultured Cacao technology - Food Business News (2024-12-05)
Chocolate, but without the guilt? Why lab-grown Cacao and ... - CNN (2024-09-10)
Cacao grown from cell cultures as climate change threatens supply - Fortune (2024-09-01)
California Cultured ramps up lab-made Cacao production - Sacramento Business Journal (2025-03-04)
Lab-grown Cacao is coming soon – from Switzerland - Swissinfo (2025-01-07)
Kokomodo backs cell-based Cacao to solve the Cacao crisis - Food Navigator (2024-06-04)
Food Brewer Raises $5.6M for Cacao from Plant Cell Culture - Agritech Digest (2025-02-21)
Lindt Backs Swiss Startup to Bring Cell-Based Chocolate to US - Green Queen (2025-03-07)
How Food Brewer makes Swiss cultivated Cacao and coffee - Food Navigator (2024-07-10)


May 26, 2025
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