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posted by martyb on Monday August 29 2016, @08:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the gives-new-meaning-to-"Who-cut-the-cheese?" dept.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2016/08/24/within-3-years-you-could-eat-your-foods-packaging-too/89255634/

Picture this: Three years from now, you open the fridge and unwrap a package of string cheese. You eat it. It tastes better, somehow, than the ones you ate as a kid. Then you eat the packaging. And your body thanks you for it.

That's the near-future envisioned by researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture who are developing environmentally friendly food packaging made from milk protein, the American Chemical Society announced this week.

The material could replace the thin plastic film now stretched around blocks of cheese, packages of steaks and other foods at your supermarket. The kicker: This protein-based packaging isn't just biodegradable and edible – it keeps food fresher than plastic, too.

The film's protein, casein, bonds tightly, creating a packaging that's up to 500 times more effective than plastics at keeping oxygen away from food, researchers said. That means the packaging is better for the earth and better for your food, and it can be eaten, they said.

Dr. Laetitia Bonnaillie, a co-leader of the study, expects to see the casein packaging hit store shelves within three years.


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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday August 29 2016, @12:24PM

    by VLM (445) on Monday August 29 2016, @12:24PM (#394616)

    rather than punishing everyone else to treat the symptom

    Generally speaking, something that makes people sick, is something you're probably better off not eating even if it doesn't make you sick. I have no known allergy to bee venom but don't seek it out. People probably shouldn't be eating peanuts (says the guy who ate a thai style peanut stir fry last night). Grains are best used for fattening up livestock for the slaughter, note they fatten up humans as well as they fatten up pigs and cows. A grown adult drinking another mammal species breast milk is simply kinky-weird and can't possibly be a good idea medically unless you have the metabolism and internal organs of a baby cow.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @12:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @12:55PM (#394633)

    Cows have breasts?