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Innovation.

The method for producing aromatic coffee granules was the result of seven years of laboratory research by Max Morgenthaler, a chemist and technology expert at the Swiss company Nestlé.

It is not surprising that this new beverage, produced at the factory in the town of Orbe, did not immediately gain widespread popularity among consumers. After all, the scientist himself preferred to drink a cup of genuine coffee brewed according to traditional methods for breakfast...

It is worth noting that instant coffee actually appeared much earlier than this presentation—in 1899 in Japan. The Japanese inventor Satoru Kato adapted the technology he had developed for instant tea to coffee as well. Kato received a request for this technology from an American company.

During World War II, instant coffee was included in the rations of the American troops.

After the war, the product quickly became popular in the United States and then spread throughout the world.