Omg, GMO: 5 inventions in the food world
This year, the usual idea of food they broke as much as they could: they grew a burger cutlet, made food substitutes, and strange hybrids: kronat and s'more flavored ice cream. The main thing - no one is going to stop at this. Wonderzine collected a few more examples of tech food.
3D food
The idea (or rather, the need) to print food came to mind to NASA experts. Habitual technologies do not allow to keep food in a suitable form for consumption for five years (such a period is necessary for long missions - flying to Mars, for example), and even astronauts cannot cook what they want because of a limited set of products. Therefore, the agency sponsored a semi-annual study on the possibility of printing food (3D printers are generally extremely interested in NASA).
Glowing ice cream
Not to say that the food glowing in the dark is a new thing at all - Harvard students with their phosphorescent chewing bears are at least three years ahead of the charismatic company Lick Me I'm Delicious. However, the technology of ice-cream makers is different: they add not quinine, but the jellyfish protein recreated in artificial conditions, which does not glow constantly, but only if it is disturbed (that is, it is).
Rice with carrot
The lack of vitamin A in the diet of the population of Africa and Asia and the inability to obtain the necessary carrots and sweet potatoes not growing in those areas prompted scientists to improve ordinary rice, one of the main products in the world. Genetically modified, he came out yellow (already nicknamed "gold"), and one cup of it per day, according to the expectations of the American Nutrition Society, provides half the daily requirement of vitamin A.
Satisfries
Burger King decided to make their french fries less harmful. The fact is that the ordinary absorbs too much oil; Satisfries absorbs it by 40% less - because of this, calorie content is reduced by a third. The company, of course, is not going to disclose how they did it, but, most likely, it was not the composition of the potato itself that changed, but the cooking technology. It is noteworthy that Burger King decided to honestly not mark Satisfries as useful - after all, it’s still the same harmful thing, only less fat.
Sonic "salt"
Not even food at all, but on the contrary, its replacement. Last year's study at Oxford University showed that sound, like smell, affects the perception of food: high sounds make food sweeter, low sounds more hot. The idea is new, but Heston Blumenthal has already taken it into circulation: in his “Fat Duck” they began to serve fish dishes, “seasoning” them with the sounds of the sea - so with a smaller amount of salt, the fish is moderately salty.
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