Coffee substitutes: Past and potential future

The paper examines the past and potential future of coffee substitutes. The findings presented here are based on the postdoctoral project entitled “Try and do not laugh!” Social debate and recipes for coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden at the Department of Food, Nutrition, and Culinary Science at Umeå University, Sweden (2022-2024). The article shows the history of coffee substitution, nowadays issues in coffee production, distribution, and consumption, and ends with some culinary findings on coffee substitutes.