Posted on 05/24/2012 8:58:13 AM PDT by bkopto
When it comes to those last globs of ketchup inevitably stuck to every bottle of Heinz, most people either violently shake the container in hopes of eking out another drop or two, or perform the "secret" trick: smacking the "57" logo on the bottle’s neck. But not MIT PhD candidate Dave Smith. He and a team of mechanical engineers and nano-technologists at the Varanasi Research Group have been held up in an MIT lab for the last two months addressing this common dining problem.
The result? LiquiGlide, a "super slippery" coating made up of nontoxic materials that can be applied to all sorts of food packaging--though ketchup and mayonnaise bottles might just be the substance’s first targets. Condiments may sound like a narrow focus for a group of MIT engineers, but not when you consider the impact it could have on food waste and the packaging industry. "It’s funny: Everyone is always like, 'Why bottles? What’s the big deal?' But then you tell them the market for bottles--just the sauces alone is a $17 billion market," Smith says. "And if all those bottles had our coating, we estimate that we could save about one million tons of food from being thrown out every year."
Check out what happens when you pour ketchup out of a LiquiGlide-coated bottle:
(Excerpt) Read more at fastcoexist.com ...
Why would we pay you when you already gave it away.
No need, we all thought it...
Already happening...expensive stuff, but several on the market based on several nanotechnologies and chemistries...
Hunt's also doesn't have High Fructose Corn Syrup in it.
Am I one of those "nothing but organic" food Nazis? Nope. But our church group had a speaker on it....I came away amazed at how many things have HFCS listed as a primary ingredient.
Not just soda, and cookies, and maple syrup, and other sweet things that you'd expect. Ketchup? (not Hunts) Most Breads? Peanut Butter? (not Peter Pan)
It was a surprise, at least to me. So, now I keep a closer eye on ingredients, especially on things that my kids eat a lot of (ketchup. PB sandwiches. and so on....)
Imagine the crazy things Bill Clinton will do with this stuff.
You underestimate marketing. Condiment company X introduces new versions of LiquiGuide bottles but reduces the amount so instead of say a 750 ml bottle the LiquiGuide bottle is 700 ml but with plenty of flash packaging to let you know you will get all of that 700 ml and nothing will be left stuck in the bottle. You also raise the price slightly to cover said marketing and added production costs.
I swear this is from the first sentence of the article:
“an amazing new condiment lubricant...”
Companies spend billions on top of billions each year letting everybody know that they are 'green' and care.
That would be a neat bottle to reuse for other stuff too, like left over gravy for one.
Or applying it to gun barrels and slides to make them function better. How about the outside of my truck so I don’t have to wash it. The possiblities are endless.
Pending FDA approval In 2050.
Man, where do I go to be an investor on this stuff?!?
-—Hunt’s also doesn’t have High Fructose Corn Syrup in it.——
I just googled it and it has corn syrup and hfcs. It needs some kind of sugar to make it sweet.
The real surprise to me so far? Salad Dressing. HFCS was the #1 ingredient in most of what I looked at.
Why would we pay you when you already gave it away.
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That kind of thinking didn’t do the Secret Service any favors
I dare ya to call MSNBC on me. I double dog dare ya.
:) Besides I hate watered down ketchup
That was my first thought!
Sugar is in everything. Flour is just about as bad, which is why nutritionists recommend avoiding processed food in general. Carbs are the enemy.
Avoiding carbs is easier said than done, though. Still, I’ve lost a lot of weight very quickly by going low carb. By eating nutrient-dense foods, like eggs, meat and veggies, I’m never hungry.
Some Dr. Now is blaming sugar for arterial inflammation. It seemed plausible when I read it.
Yeah, my wife is a major anti-HFCS lady. We eat much healthier stuff now that she’s been into researching food and nutrition. We don’t even buy bread anymore, she just makes her own.
I still haven’t given up my soda, though. In a bit of compromise, I agreed to go to Pepsi Throwback (with real sugar) rather than HFCS.
New! Improved! (repackaged in a slightly smaller bottle) with the selling point that 'it all comes out in the end'!
...and only a modest price increase...
but, "You get it all!"
Yeah, they'd pay for it--and make money on it, too.
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