The document discusses several disruptive food technologies that could shape the future of food, including nanotechnology, indoor vertical farms, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), cultured meat and dairy, 3D printers, edible and biodegradable packaging. It provides examples of each technology and discusses both their benefits as well as challenges. Overall, the document examines how these emerging technologies may help address issues of climate change, population growth, and water scarcity in food production.
5. Incremental vs Disruptive Technologies
Historical examples of disruptive food
technologies:
• The use of fire to cook food
• Roller milling of wheat flour
• Refrigeration/freezing
• Pasteurization/canning of food
• Mechanization of kneading dough/bread making
Disruptive or incremental?
6. Seven Disruptive Technologies
• Nanotechnology
• Indoor vertical farms
(grow in your own
space)
• GMOs
• Cultured (in-vitro)
meat and dairy
• 3D Printers
• Edible/Biodegradable
packaging
8. Nanotechnology + Food = ???
Under some currently
proposed definitions GMOs
may qualify as Nanofoods.
• )
Over 4,000 types of potatoes in Peru
alone. (via crossing breeding, mutagenesis
and genetic alteration)
15. Cultured Meat:
But Does It Taste Like Chicken?
Cotton Chicken is a design concept that builds on the development of
lab-cultured meat. ” It is a pultrusion of cultured chicken meat, spun like
cotton candy, or pulled like fresh pasta. It is then seasoned to perfection,
flash-fried, and wrapped delicately around a skewer of bamboo.”
http://dunmag.com/en/2010/10/21/we-are-what-we-eat/
•Controlled production vs. CAFO: Food safety
concerns
•Energy Requirements: Building a whole cow
requires more energy than building a steak.
•Greater availability of safe protein sources
worldwide
16. In Vitro Meat
● Cheaper to produce
● Less animals will be slaughtered
● Requires less water than traditional
food production
● Cleaner for the environment
● Ethical
● Prevents climate change
● Healthier
● Sustainable Do you really
want to eat
him??
17. Food Production
In-Vitro meat is the (idea of)
manufacturing of meat products
through "tissue-engineering"
technology.
• Do No Harm
• Happy Cows
19. Cheese and Milk
• New Harvest
• Muufri
• http://www.perfectdayfoods.com/
20. Responsible Stewardship of Animals
Photo credit unknown
• “In vitro meat has the potential to prevent an
enormous amount of suffering .” Paul Shapiro,
Humane Society of the United States.
• “It’s time to stop killing meat and start growing it.”
William Saletan, Slate.com
• "We don't mind taking uncomfortable positions if it
means that fewer animals suffer.” Ingrid Newkirk,
referring to PETA’s $1 million prize for a commercially
viable in-vitro meat product and the attendant internal
conflict it generated.
24. Edible Packaging
● WikiPearl, a bite-sized morsel of food that is wrapped in a plastic-free
packaging that protects the food, but is also edible and biodegradabl
26. Casein Protein
packaging
- Tighter network when
polymerized
- 500x better than
plastic for freshness
- Cheese slices and
cheese string come
wrapped in a lot of
plastic. What if that
wrap was
biodegradable, or even
edible? (American
Chemical Society)
30. Stop waste
Waste Economies #nofoodwaste #eatthewaste #nosetotail
#sustainable #socialenterprise
Waste Renewal: The Social Enterprise model tackles
waste by sourcing surplus foods and turning them into
marketable food products.
To find surplus foods going waste, there’s PareUp—an
app to connect hungry eaters with excess restaurant and
grocery store food at discounted prices.
Foodsharing: Still a fringe practice, food-sharing is an extension
of sharing economy practices yet to take off. Apps like
Leftoverswap (connecting people with leftovers and people
looking for free meals) and non-profits like foodsharing.de
facilitate networking between individual with and without food
surpluses. Cropmobster facilitates community redistribution and
London-based Eatro seeks to connects home cooks with other
meal-seekers.
31. Sky Farms #futurecities #verticalfarms #urbanagriculture
#sustainable #farmtotable
Urban Agriculture
Image Source: Fast Co July 2, 2014: http://tinyurl.com/l9u3pqx
Image Source: Plantagon--plantagon.com
Vertical Farming
33. Ambiance
• Sensory Engineering:
• Accompanying your seafood risotto
are the
sounds of the sea, enhancing the
perceived
freshness and flavors, and affecting
our sense of sweetness and saltiness.
• Virtual reality -- The sushi in this VR
experience is actually comprised of semi –
transparent cubes molded to look like rice,
but are made out of agar-agar, which is
vegan.
34. Smart Table/ Kiosks
• A lot of restaurants are already doing this.
–Panera Bread
– McDonald’s (at participating locations)
–Chili’s/Applebee’s
• Faster and easier. Makes less wasted food
–You choose exactly what you want and the
computer gets it right
36. Forget Drive in: Drone-Out!
Automated service that takes
less manpower
• More “important” jobs can
be done
by humans, while
transportation is by drones
• Many already doing this
– Amazon drone power!
By the year 2050, the world’s population is projected to swell to 9 billion. 80% will be urban-dwellers. Demand from developing countries for a wider range of foods is on the rise. Experts estimate that we will therefore need new farmland larger than the size of Brazil to produce enough to meet the demands of growing populations.
Food security therefore represents one of the single biggest challenges of our future, with environmental, economic, political, and lifestyle implications..
The tricky part: Size matters, but so does shape.
As of August 2010, the ISO (International Organization for Standards) approved Iran’s
“Methodology of Categorization and Classification of Nanomaterials,” which presents a methodology and a systematic method to categorize and classify nanomaterials according to their size, chemical nature, properties, and characteristics. (e.g. -‘muramic acid measurement for identification of nanosilver antibacterial activity’)
Functional food or medicinal food is any healthy food claimed to have a health-promoting or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients.[1] The general category of functional foods includes processed food or foods fortified with health-promoting additives, like "vitamin-enriched" products. Fermented foods with live cultures are considered as functional foods with probiotic benefits.
Phytoestrogen which claim that they MAY relieve menopausal symptoms like hot flashes, prevent heart disease, lower LDL (bad) cholesterol) – however there is often a disclaimer on the packaging that these claims have not been evaluated by the FDA.
iInteractive: Masking bitter flavours of bioactives like phytochemicals in fortified products until stomach release␣ Emerging. Use of microwaves to disintegrate encapsulated flavours or collors to release them. ␣
New Harvest is a nonprofit research organization working to develop new alternatives to conventionally-produced meat, including cultured meat — meat produced in a cell culture, rather than in an animal. http://new-harvest.org/default.php
Photo credit: http://culturedmeat.blogspot.com
Cultured meat uses 35 to 60 percent less energy, emits 80 to 95 percent less greenhouse gas, and uses 98 percent less land, according to a lifecycle assessment performed by Hanna Tuomisto, of the University of Oxford, and M. Joost Teizeira de Mattos, of the University of Amsterdam.
Shapiro quote from Atlantic Monthly
Saletan is National correspondent at Slate.com.
Newkirk is the co-founder of PETA
Sensory-engineering. Scientists have shown that look and smell affect how we taste. Condiment Junkie, a sonic-branding company is exploring how certain frequencies can compensate for sugar in foods, thereby improving health, as well as enhancing the whole cooking and eating experience.