Cultivated chocolate gets a $2.8 million boost from BioMade, NSF
In California, a cell-cultured chocolate collaboration between California Cultured and University of California-Davis has been awarded a $2.8 million grant from public-private biomanufacturing consortium BioMade and the National Science Foundation. The funds will be used to improve key scale-up challenges such as better sterilization methods and biomass sensors.
“This grant directly supports the hardest and most important part of what we are building, which is lowering the cost of production, so cultured cocoa can move from a breakthrough technology into a real commercial ingredient platform,” Steve Stearns, head of strategy at California Cultured, tells Green Queen. California Cultured hopes to begin manufacturing in 2027. It has already submitted a Generally Recognized as Safe notice to the Food and Drug Administration.
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