EDIBLE FOOD PACKAGING

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

• A package that provides protection, tampering resistance,
• and keeps the food fresh.
• It may bear a nutrition facts label and other information about
• food being offered for sale.

WHO INVENTED EDIBLE FOOD PACKAGING?

• David Edwards, the inventor, has invented
• a fully edible food packaging called Wikipearl.
• He made edible food packagings for yogurt,
• coffee, and alcoholic drinks packages.

WHO IS DAVID EDWARDS?

• David is a bioengineer at Harvard and he's 51 years old.
• He is also a writer of fiction and nonfiction books.
• And he founded le laboratoire, an experimental science and art
• center where artists and scientists collaborate in Paris.

EDIBLE FOOD PACKAGES

• In Bob's Burgers in Brazil, you can eat
• the wrapper and the burger without having
• to unwrap it.
• You don't have to throw the wrapper away.
• And it causes no mess!!

WHAT IS WIKIPEARL?

• Edible food packaging.
• Wikipearl ice cream and yogurt were
• launched in selected Paris stores last June.
• Real foodstuff is combined with calcium ions
• to wipe out the need for plastic wrapping.

THE PROS

• No mess.
• Saves the environment.
• Reduces plastic packaging.

THE CONS

• Costs more money.
• Takes up more time.

TYPES OF FOODS WITH EDIBLE FOOD PACKAGING.

• Brazilian hamburger.
• Edible cups.
• Yogurt cups.
• Froyo Bon-bons.
• Wikipearl coffee.

FUTURE OF FOOD PACKAGING.

• They will be made of food particles and ions.
• It's exactly like human skin, the goal is to
• reproduce the natural barrier of human skin.
• The company is working on creating beverages in
• a similar way to Wikipearl.

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