This startup is making coffee...without coffee beans

Atomo Coffee, a startup based in Seattle, is looking to make a more environmentally friendly coffee by taking the coffee bean out of the equation. But is it good enough to stand the taste test? CNN Business's Rachel Crane reports.

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[philipsduke]

Successful people don't become that way overnight, what most people see at a glance-wealth, a great career, purpose is the result of hard work and hustle over time.

[CharlesDarwinBarkley]

Waukesha massacre?? Ghislaine maxwell trial?? And you chose this one?

[fadiyos]

It's not a coffee then.. it's brewed date

[TheDegenerateTravler]

Yeah a chemical cocktail instead of a natural vegetable sounds so healthy and good
“New compounds”

[waterdog]

Too late stopped drinking coffee 15 years ago.

[markphc]

I don't think Brazil or Kenya will be worried

[oscarfish]

Does it have all the attributes of coffee like antioxidants and caffeine?

[TheGillhicks]

Juan Valdez is rolling over in his grave.

[jamesrlewin]

If only someone could grind up ocean plastic waste mix it with brown dye and market it as coffee, decaf of course. Feel free to go with this idea, I have many more.

[paranoid]

so that's how the company who made Soylent Green started

[DannyMancheno]

As long as it’s cheaper, tired of seeing “future” products that end up being double the price.. That’s the main point of me caring tbh.

[zekeiirodriguez]

I'm a Coffee connoisseur...you can't fool me!
I've tried different concoctions; and never like them!

Got to have my Puerto Rican, Cuban, or Italian Coffee... nothing else does it for me!

[snappatruce]

Coffee without coffee. I’ll go out on a limb and say this dudes gonna lose his ass.

[billysouth]

This is news, two questions where's Fredo and where's the coverage of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial!

[brettmasonmedia]

Lol. Congrats on making a bad cold brew coffee I guess? 🤦🏻‍♂️

[poldetson]

"We add other compounds"... each requiring an industrial chemical facility to manufacture, making the overall process less energy efficient and more resource demanding than just growing coffee.

[johnmuthan]

This is npt new, been used during 2nd World War in European countries as coffee beans became scarce. Exact same formula and sold throughout Europe for more than half a century.

[RealBoglimChronicles]

Meanwhile
In real news. Fredo is gone

[jorgeluisbarcena]

Podrán transmitirlo en español por favor, gracias

[kerplunk]

Good! I like coffee but my digestive tract can't handle it.