Food Products and Packaging

Nanoscientists have been able to apply Nanotechnology into food products and packaging materials too. This helps manufacturing companies to tweak their products to make it more suitable to the customers while maintaining its taste, texture, color etc.

Nanotechnology has enabled the manufacturers to develop food items to match specific taste, texture, and nutrient density, for example, if a company wants to make its mayonnaise thinner, using Nanotechnology it could replace a portion of the fat content of each particle of mayonnaise with water content.

Not only this but even for packaging, Nanotechnology has been proved to enhance the shelf life and product quality. For eaxmple, SABMiller, a beer brewing company, incorporates flaky clay Nanoparticles in its plastic beer bottles to fill up more space in the walls of the bottle.

This makes it difficult for gases to escape or enter the beer bottle and ensures that the product retains its desired flavor for long.