Edible food sensor

Edible Mushrooms: an Alternative Food Item

Nutrition is the main living reason for all of the societies of the world. Food supply should be both an economic and ecological subject. Health and nutrition involve balanced and sufficient functional food components. Sufficient daily calorie intake is the main problem of developing countries. The people cannot supply an adequate intake of essential food compounds such as proteins containing e...

Edible Oil: Food Security in the Gulf

Nanosystems in Edible Coatings: A Novel Strategy for Food Preservation

Currently, nanotechnology represents an important tool and an efficient option for extending the shelf life of foods. Reducing particle size to nanometric scale gives materials distinct and improved properties compared to larger systems. For food applications, this technology allows the incorporation of hydrophilic and lipophilic substances with antimicrobial and antioxidant properties that can...

Silk Fibroin as Edible Coating for Perishable Food Preservation

The regeneration of structural biopolymers into micelles or nanoparticles suspended in water has enabled the design of new materials with unique and compelling properties that can serve at the interface between the biotic and the abiotic worlds. In this study, we leveraged silk fibroin quintessential properties (i.e. polymorphism, conformability and hydrophobicity) to design a water-based prote...

Edible Bits: Seamless Interfaces between People, Data and Food

In this paper we introduce the concept of the Edible User Interface (EUI). We present BeanCounter and TasteScreen, two systems employing this novel interaction paradigm. We describe sample applications of these systems and discuss the results of our user study.