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New beanless 'coffee' emerges but does it taste any good?
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Traditional coffee substitutes have a reputation for not tasting much like coffee and are usually caffeine-free.
However, the newcomers intend to replicate one of the world’s most popular beverages from taste, to caffeine punch, to drinking experience – and the first of this nascent industry’s beanless concoctions have begun to appear.
They say there's a strong environmental argument for their beanless brews.
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, coffee cultivation is currently the sixth largest cause of deforestation.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gv0rvx0dvo
Traditional coffee substitutes have a reputation for not tasting much like coffee and are usually caffeine-free.
However, the newcomers intend to replicate one of the world’s most popular beverages from taste, to caffeine punch, to drinking experience – and the first of this nascent industry’s beanless concoctions have begun to appear.
They say there's a strong environmental argument for their beanless brews.
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, coffee cultivation is currently the sixth largest cause of deforestation.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gv0rvx0dvo
Coffee grown in a truly sustainable manner, in forests of high biological diversity, would be too expensive for the average middle class person to drink.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade-grown_coffee