Nanotechnology in the food industry can take a number of forms. These include the use of nanotechnology in packaging materials, farming practices, food processing and also in the foods themselves.

But there are also a lot of positives. Let's take a look at the potentially beneficial effects nanotechnology-enabled innovations could have on our foods and, subsequently, on our health. Generally, ...

Nanotechnology has transformed several scientific and industrial sectors, including the food industry, where it has a role in food production, processing, storage, and quality control. Nanotechnology ...

A comprehensive 68 page PDF report from the Australian arm of Friends of the Earth (FOE) called ‘Out of the laboratory and onto our plates – Nanotechnology in food and Agriculture’ has just been ...

For a little more than a decade, the food industry has been using nanotechnology to change the way we grow and maintain our food. The grocery chain Albertsons currently has a list of nanotech-touched ...

Seda Erdem received funding from the Rural Economy and Land Use Programme of the UK Research Councils to undertake her research on Consumer Preferences for Nanotechnology in Food Packaging (RES-229-31 ...

The field of microbiology has developed over the 20 th and 21 st centuries to help researchers peer into the hidden world of the microscopic. Recent developments in nanotechnology have provided ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Nanotechnology has begun to find potential applications in the area of functional food by engineering biological molecules toward functions very different from those they have in ...