Coffee cups are pictured in the tasting area of the Vanibel cocoa and vanilla production facility, a ... [ ] former 18th Century sugar refinery in Vieux-Habitants, Guadeloupe, on April 9, 2018. Artificial intelligence (AI) is predicted to reach $126 billion by 2025. It is showing up in every industry, from healthcare and agriculture to education, finance and shipping. And now, AI has made a move to the food industry to discover and develop new flavors in food and drink. In 2018, Danish brewer, Carlsburg used AI to map and predict flavors from yeast and other ingredients in beer.

Coffee cups are pictured in the tasting area of the Vanibel cocoa and vanilla production facility, a ... [ ] former 18th Century sugar refinery in Vieux-Habitants, Guadeloupe, on April 9, 2018. Artificial intelligence (AI) is predicted to reach $126 B by 2025. It is showing up in every industry, from healthcare and agriculture to education, finance and shipping. And now, AI has made a move to the food industry to discover and develop new flavors in food and drink. In 2018, Danish brewer, Carlsburg used AI to map and predict flavors from yeast and other ingredients in beer.

Deciphering what flavor notes are present in a given coffee is more art than science. Tasters spend hours upon hours training their palates, translating the sensory information through the lens of past (highly subjective) flavor experiences to arrive at descriptors that best align with the original sensory input. But one startup is looking to take a more scientific approach to identifying flavors in coffee. The company is called Demetria and they have created an app to "detect a specific and high value sensory ("taste") profile of green coffee." In a press release announcing the company, Demetria touts itself as "the first AI-powered taste and quality intelligence [software as a service] startup for the coffee supply chain."