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.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday August 29 2016, @12:24PM
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @12:55PM
Cows have breasts?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @01:18PM
What an udderly stupid question.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday August 29 2016, @08:51PM
Cows have breasts?
If you really want to see weird animal stuff look at contemporary Disney-Pixar type movies. Umm excuse me we had housecats as pets growing up and I assure you the milk emitters are on feline bellies not feline chests, but its disney, and felines don't talk or dance or stand on two legs all day, so yeah...
I thought Disney-type animated movies were kinda weird as a kid, but they just get weirder and weirder now that I'm older. Anime is now more normal than Western which is pretty weird. Cowboy bebop, OK the astrophysics needs some work, but, even the Japanese don't have housecats with well endowed chests. Or maybe I'm missing the "really good" anime.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @10:39PM
http://outlawstar.wikia.com/wiki/Aisha_Clan-Clan#Gallery [wikia.com]
http://tokyomewmewpower.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Characters [wikia.com]
http://dogdays.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Galetteans [wikia.com]
http://www.anime-planet.com/characters/tags/catgirls [anime-planet.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_(Darkstalkers) [wikipedia.org]
close enough