Drink Up Your Juice and Eat the Bottle !

Researchers are working on a special material that would make it possible for people to drink their favorite juice and afterwards easily get rid of the bottle by simply eating it. The bottle is going to be made of a special biodegradable plastic mixed with food particles. Its taste will be the same as the taste of the drink.

The material, from which the bottle will be made, is called WikiCells, and it consists of natural food membrane that has liquid inside a biodegradable shell. WikiCells, the material of the edible bottles was developed by professor David Edwards at Harvard University. It consists of natural food membrane with liquid within biodegradable shell.

The new technology will solve the problem of plastic bottles, which exacerbates the environmental burden. So far the specialists were able to create tomato membrane with gazpacho soup, orange membrane with orange juice, grape membrane with wine and chocolate membrane with hot chocolate.

The edible membrane could be produced with the help of special WikiCells Machine and will be available in restaurants, but Edwards hopes it will soon appear in supermarkets and stores.