Part2
Read the text and answer the questions below
The Future of Food Packaging
A
Food companies spend a lot of time thinking about packaging as a way torepresent their brand and make consumers love their products. More thancosmetic details like labels or logos, a mod’s container can suggestplayfulness, environmental consciousness, or high technology. Packgingprovides consumers’ first and last impressions of a product.
B
Fortunately for consumers, advances in food packaging technologypromise to make food storage and preparation simpler Consumers aregrowing ever more obsessed with sleek technology, reducing food waste,and minimizing health risks to themselves and the environment, and inresponse, food packaging is undergoing some interesting developments.Food-packaging designers are hard at work to make groceriesenvironmentally friendly, compact, and functional.
C
Edible packaging has been proposed as one solution to consumers’environmental concerns because it leaves no waste. The fried chickenchain KFC, for example, is experimenting with an edible coffee-cup. Madefrom a hard cookie lined with heat-resistant white chocolate, the cup isKFC’s attempt to reduce its landfill waste and satisfy customers whe areconcented that businesses produce products that support food-systemsustainability and innovation. Another company, Stonyfield Organic,introduced frozen yogurt ‘pearls’ using edible food wrappers. The skin hasno flavor and can be rinsed and eaten with the yogurt (much like a grape),eliminating the need for plastic spoons or wrappers for those on the go. Itseems that people still want a layer of sanitary protection, though, becausethe soheri ial yogurts are still sold in containers. Similarly, a companycalled Loliware has sold getatin-based edible drinking cups for two years,in flavors like Madagascar vanilla and tart cherry. And last year, thecompany introduced edible cupcake wrappers made from potato starch.Even with these new advances, one decade-old edible invention continues to see great success – the clear paper used to wrap Japanese Botan Rice andy.
D
Another development has been nonstick packaging, which can eliminate the 3 to 15 percent of sauces left inside traditional bottles, like those last trails of ketchup and mayonnaise that won’t come out no matter how hard you shake or squeeze. Liquiglide – which refers to both a company and the product it makes – is a permanently wet slippery surface that allows viscous matter to slide off easily. Liquiglide estimates that its coating could prevent 1 million tons of food waste each year. The coating is made from components approved by the US government, and, according to the company does not affect the taste or smell of food. Another benefit of Liquiglide is that it prevents crabebated beverages from going flat.
E
New safety-enhancing packaging is now addressing the issue of foodspoilage. It might seem this was solved long ago with the advent of theSeli-e-waste stam., which was meant to warn customers of when the foodwould no longer be considered suitable for consumption. But after aHarvard report revealed that sell-by dates are often inaccurate because ofvariances in transportation and grocery store policies, and that they alsocontribute to America’s food-waste problem, the stamps have lostcredibility in the food industry. In response, scientists are working on foodpackaging – like plastic wrap – that is ‘active and intelligent’ with tinyembedded sensors to first detect and later prevent food from spoiling.This advancement in food packaging draws upon nanotechnology, which isdedicated to making electronic sensors tiny and inexpensive. Of course,one could also rely on what has saved humankind from food poisoning formillennia – the senses. If it smells bad, throw it away.
F
Another emerging technology is packaging that disappears. MonoSol, LLC creates food-grade water-soluble bags for pre-portioned oatmeal or rice. When boiled, the bag dissolves, leaving only the food, ready to eat.
MonoSol, LLC is marketing this to professional kitchens as well as consumers, as a way to pre-measure meal ingredients and ensure consistency regardless of who is cooking. Tomorrow Machine, a Swedish design firm, has plans for three disappearing packages: an oil bottle made from hardened sugar that cracks open like an egg; a fruit juice container made from seaweed that ‘will wither at the same rate as its content’; and a peelable beeswax package for rice or other dry goods.
G
Super-compressed packaging serves the increasing number of city dwellers who generally have tiny kitchens and no storage room. Additionally, many people living in urban areas walk home from grocery stores, and they need lighter and smaller packages. Tomorrow Machine is also working on a compressed tiny package that expands into a full-size bowl when hot water is added.
Questions 14-20
The text has seven sections.
Choose the correct heading heading and move it into the gap.
packaging that allows consumers use more the product
the many reasons for changes in packing
packaging that includes utensils like like spoons like forks
packaging that can be consumed with its contents
packaging that doesn’t take up a lot of space
the history of food packaging
packing that indicates when food is beginning to go rotten
packaging that can be reused
using packaging to communicate ideas and attract customers
packing that vanishes or decomposes quickly
** Questions 21-23** Choose the correct packaging development, A-F, for each company.
21 KFC
21
22 Loliware
22
23 Tomorrow Machine
23
A a container that gets biggerunder certain conditions
B packaging that vanishes in hot water
C a material that prevents thewaste of sticky condiments
D packaging made from avegetable product drinks
E a sweet container for hot
F round, flavourless containersthat can be consumed
Questions 24-26
Complete the sentences.
Write ONE WORD ONLY from the text for each answer.
24 In Japan,__________has been used as edible packaging for years.
25 Liquiglide reduces food wastes, especially in bottles containing various __________
26 Tomorrow Machine is planning to use solid __________as a container for oil.
© 版权声明
文章版权归作者所有，未经允许请勿转载。
THE END
喜欢就支持一下吧
