Wednesday, February 8, 2012

How cool are chestnuts?

Nature has ingenious ways of wrapping its products in compostable packages.

For example, chestnuts:

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Oranges:

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 Or onions:
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What if we did the same? Researchers at Harvard University are taking a cue from nature to create edible packaging for food. Read about it at the Scientific American.

Don't ask me how it works - but maybe the science genius behind Stars and Spice can help us understand how they created "a membrane made of charged particles of edible substances bound by electrostatic forces." (Stars and Spice, if you don't know, is written by my sister)

 p.s. Seriously - how cool are chestnuts?

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  1. starsandspiceApril 16, 2012 at 9:18 AM

    Very cool!

    Chestnuts, however, are only cool packages if you don't have them in your garden. Apparently those spikes (at least those of American chestnuts) go right through shoes!

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