WikiPearl - edible food packaging

The usefulness of the usual packaging for products is quite controversial. Apart from a slight simplification of our daily life, it does not bring anything useful: with long storage in polyethylene, the content of nutrients decreases significantly, and the packaging itself ends up in the seas and oceans.

In their quest to reduce the negative impact of packaging on the environment, activists offer a variety of solutions: completely eliminate food packaging in supermarkets, develop packaging that can be eaten without being thrown away.



A couple of months ago, Facepla.net talked about “Ooho” – a drop-shaped water tank, quite durable, hygienic, biodegradable, edible and easy and cheap to produce.

The idea of natural packaging for solid food – WikiPearl was born from bio-engineer, Harvard University professor David Edwards (David Edwards). For a while, David considered the possibility of packaging food and beverages in natural packaging, like the one in which nature stores fruits and vegetables. After much research with his students, Edwards continued the development in collaboration with designer François Azambourg and biologist Don Ingber.



The technology won the top prize for innovation at SIAL 2012 and was widely recognized.
Encouraged by the reaction of the public and potential partners, the scientists formed a company called WikiFoods, Inc.

Here is what the developers write about their “natural” packaging:

Inspired by nature, WikiFoods can serve as packaging for a wide range of food and beverages, eliminating the need for plastic or plastic packaging, replacing the latter with packaging made of natural ingredients. Like grape peels, WikiFoods packaging not only works as a barrier against water loss and pollution, it is also very tasty and contains nutrients.



Made of a “protective electrostatic gel formed by binding interactions between natural edible particles, nutrients and polysaccharides,” this packaging is water and oxygen impermeable.



“Imagine a grape peel and a coconut shell. WikiPearl packaging plays this role in food. The peel of fruits and vegetables is very tasty and protective.”



WikiPearl technology protects the product or drink enclosed in such a "packaging" without exposing it to artificial chemical material, while being a tasty, useful and very convenient material.

WikiPearl packaging goes well with any gastronomy; products such as ice cream, cheese, frozen yogurt, vegetables, cocktails, soups or water can be "packed" in excellent composition, optionally supplemented with flavor or certain nutrients, packaging that does not melt in the hands.



WikiPearls is currently sold in some Whole Foods stores in Massachusetts, and in July, to the delight of sweet lovers, a WikiBar store with various types of ice cream will open, which, incidentally, has long been operating in the heart of Paris at 4 Rue Du Bouloi, 75001 Paris, France.



from wikipearl.com

Source: facepla.net