Edible Packaging - Can we say yum?

What if one day we can pick up a juice box, drink the juice and then eat the straw? What if you can have your cake and eat the package it came in too? Well a start-up company called WikiFoods Inc. has been pioneering this idea of edible packaging since 2012. They have come up with WikiPearls, which will have ice cream, yogurt, or cheese encapsulated inside of an edible skin. Yum! You can actually try out these WikiPearls now - they sell them at Whole Foods, but unfortunately only in the New England area. Hope they'll get big enough to reach Chicago someday.

My favorite idea so far is having a martini inside of an edible package that tastes and is shaped like an olive. You can take the olive, rinse it off and then drink it when you are ready! How convenient! I would definitely buy one if there were Manhattans inside an orange tasting skin.

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I'll link a really nice article written by Tuan C. Nguyen from the Washington Post here about edible packaging.