High-Tech Food Packaging
Food spoilage cuts deeply into any store’s bottom line: When you toss out rotted produce, you toss out money. High-tech companies can earn big bucks for solutions to this persistent problem, which costs businesses $35 billion each year.
Wired News offers a look at some of these new techologies. I’m intrigued by the portable pressure cooker being offered at Whole Foods, but Hormel has the most compelling technology, “the first preservative-free packaged deli meat from a large food manufacturer.” The company that brought us SPAM uses intense pressure to obliterate pathogens before they seal the meat in plastic. No preservatives, no problem, but who knows what the process does to the meat?
Have any GnG readers spotted the packaging technologies mentioned in the article? How does the food taste?
