Food Brewer uses natural plant cells to grow cocoa and coffee powder at its pilot plant near Zürich in Switzerland. The start-up company takes cells from a cocoa bean and cultivates them into a cell culture. Once the culture reaches the required quality, it is transferred into a bioreactor, where the cells grow in a nutrient-rich medium before being harvested, dried, and roasted into cocoa powder. AI-assisted cell selection ensures only the best cells are transferred to the bioreactor.
To maintain sterility and efficiency throughout its upstream workflow, Food Brewer utilises compact, contamination-free Watson Marlow 530 and 630 series peristaltic pumps, fitted with Watson Marlow PureWeld XI tubing. The pump and tubing combination supports three critical upstream applications...
Read the full article in DPA's April 2026 issue