Eating an ice cream without milk tomato arugula and strawberries, grow a garden of fully automated wall, decrease the consumption of sugar without sacrificing sweetness.
After revolutionized communication, the hi-tech is preparing to change the power and Seeds & amp; Chips, the fair that was held in Milan between 11 and 14 May, novelty they have seen a lot. More than 150 start-up (the vast majority), public research bodies, large food and IT industry names have shown to the public and insiders as is changing the chain of food.
You early to say how many of these projects, app and device will enter the daily life of consumers and businesses. Of course, the inventions presented in Milan respond to many of the requirements – traceability, full transparency for the consumer, food safety – and fashions of recent years: organic and zero kilometer of all. We spent two days looking through the stands of Seeds & amp; Chips here is what impressed us more.
Total traceability. Read and European regulations already stipulate what information should contain a label. But farmers and ranchers can do more: to document each stage of production and make it available to the consumer, with photos, videos and maps. The raw materials used in farming methods respecting animal, up to hygiene during the processing of meat and its safety in the packaging. The “talking” label is activated by smartphone, reading the QR code or even just approaching the phone to the product for sale. Food Chain and Trust are two instruments entirely made in Italy that allow it: while the first is still in gestation, the second is already used by some farmers. Applications such as these also provide one more weapon against counterfeiting of quality labels such as organic, the DOP (San Marzano tomatoes, for example) or the IGP if the producer does not prove that you have the credentials, certification it can not appear the speaker label.
But it’s not just consumers who needed traceability. Even the producers have a vested interest in knowing how the merchandise once it is treated that the truck has left the factory. Infratab for example is a tab that keeps track of the temperature which the perishable products (fruits, vegetables undergo, flowers but also vaccines and medicines). Selective contact with the product to be monitored, also provides the data in real time through an app. At the end of trip, just press a button to see if the goods are still sold or be thrown through the shredder. To date, the California-based company monitors the journey of some Swiss vaccines to Turkey, roses from Kenya and strawberries from Chile to Europe. National Geographic we spoke of another “warning label” cold chain: the Smart Tag result of Italian research and English.
something similar so does the British See your Box , which is able to record over 60 parameters and can also be applied in other than food products. The sensor, as big as a credit card, check temperature but also stress, vibration, CO2 levels and more.
Fresh vegetables for all. What is the safest way to eat vegetables untreated and zero kilometer? Cars produce them. Not everyone, however, have the skills, time or space to do so. Sometimes they are missing all three things together. A Seeds & amp; Chips are different solutions were submitted.
A, which in recent years is gaining ground, it is hydroponics. Ie cultivation without soil, with maximum space saving and water: the roots are immersed in nutrient solutions and illuminated by energy-efficient LEDs. In this way, besides being able to produce food in the most inhospitable areas of the planet, you can also remove some whim “bourgeois.” How to grow herbs indoors and without soil.
Robonica is a start-up formed by young Milanese, released recently by the Polytechnic. Their idea is that of a hexagonal greenhouse in which to grow up to 12 different varieties. For now it is only a prototype, waiting to scrape together the necessary funding. Then come several colors and materials for making greenhouses real furnishings.
The stand of Robonica
There can be grown all over, just that plants are short-medium rod such as basil, parsley, rosemary, sage, or chilies. To provide the nourishment are solutions (mainly nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus) and the light is provided by LED lights that – according to the founders – consuming as two incandescent bulbs.
Apart from filling in a while the water tank, no need to do anything. Even the hours of light are adjusted automatically, as well as the amount of nutrients required in each plant, the humidity and the proper pH. It just has to look at them as they grow up … or to control everything on your smartphone. An app will warn us when the plant will be ready for harvest. If we had not a keen sense of observation.
principle of Wallfarm (this time the young entrepreneurs are almost all Roman) is more or less the same, with the difference that the greenhouse here is vertical. A mini-garden to one square meter of wall. The Wallfarm creators also have automated the sensors (which control the levels of pH and nutrients), which are capable of self-cleaning and autocalibrarsi. The business of homemade hydroponic greenhouses resembles that of printers: those who produce does business mainly by selling the cartridges, which in this case instead of ink containing solutions. Once purchased the greenhouse, in fact, it’s up to us to decide what to do: you can start from seed, from a plant or bought from a cutting, maybe cultured from the garden of a friend.
Wheat in hydroponic culture in the stand of Wallfarm
and speaking of real vegetable garden, there are those who cultivate it in our place. choose what to grow and be send home the tapes with the harvest In Turin came up also this: Korto gives you the opportunity to “adopt” a piece of land. All without getting your hands dirty: they think of the farmers AFFILIATES at start-up to work for us. And if we like to win easy, we can put on his boots and take up the vegetables with our hands as soon as it is ready.
What a sweet, that idea. In the two days when we visited Seeds & amp; Chips booth IceDreams is one of the busiest. A little ‘because you could eat free ice cream, a little’ because it was not just any ice cream. green apple, mint and celery, or tomatoes, arugula and strawberry are quite unusual combinations, but the real news is in the production method: completely cold, no milk (without pasteurizing), no eggs, no artificial emulsifiers. The secret of what could otherwise be a normal sorbet lies nell’emulsionante that the founders present themselves as “a 100% natural fibers in September: vegan, Halal and Kosher.” At this point, the recipe is simple and can be followed by anyone with a normal mixer and a freezer: take fresh fruits and vegetables, they will mix with the emulsifier and lead to a -16 degrees. At this point they will mix again and here is the ice cream.
A hi-tech sugar sweeter than regular sugar, but healthier. The Israeli Doux Matok has developed a particle composed of a very porous material. Sucrose or glucose, inserted into these cavities, they arrive directly to our receptors giving us the same feeling of sweetness that would give us higher amount of sugar. The particle has received the green light from the EU and US health authorities and may be used in any sweet food: soft drinks, candy, baked goods, or fillings.
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