Willy Wonka’s gourmet gum is now a possibility
source: http://newslite.tv/2010/10/11/willy-wonkas-gourmet-gum-now-a.html
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Boffins claim they've cracked the secret which will enable them to create Willy Wonka style sweets which replicate three meals in a single stick of gum.
Scientist Dave Hart, from the Institute of Food Research, says he can turn Roald Dahl’s eccentric gourmet gum invention into reality -- and luckily, without the unpleasant side effects!
Working with a team from the National Science & Engineering Competition he says nanotechnology can be used to encapsulate and release flavours in a precisely controlled way.
Hart and his team are currently experimenting with boiled sweets which have different flavour layers separated with a tasteless gelatine and contain a final desert taste at the centre, encapsulated in a high-tech gel called Gellan.
While he says a chewing gum might be a few years away, it he proclaims his boiled sweets a success -- and he hasn't even turned any children into blueberries, or so he says.
Speaking of his work, Hart said: "Wonka’s fantasy concoction has been nothing but a dream for millions of kids across the world.
"But science and technology is changing the future of food, and these nanoparticles may hold the answer to creating a three course gourmet gum.
"The mechanism exists but the technique and flavours need perfecting. In the meantime, I’m working on the idea of a boiled sweet version which uses a much older scientific technique.”
http://newslite.tv/2010/10/11/willy-wonkas-gourmet-gum-now-a.html
Scientist Dave Hart, from the Institute of Food Research, says he can turn Roald Dahl’s eccentric gourmet gum invention into reality -- and luckily, without the unpleasant side effects!
Working with a team from the National Science & Engineering Competition he says nanotechnology can be used to encapsulate and release flavours in a precisely controlled way.
Hart and his team are currently experimenting with boiled sweets which have different flavour layers separated with a tasteless gelatine and contain a final desert taste at the centre, encapsulated in a high-tech gel called Gellan.
While he says a chewing gum might be a few years away, it he proclaims his boiled sweets a success -- and he hasn't even turned any children into blueberries, or so he says.
Speaking of his work, Hart said: "Wonka’s fantasy concoction has been nothing but a dream for millions of kids across the world.
"But science and technology is changing the future of food, and these nanoparticles may hold the answer to creating a three course gourmet gum.
"The mechanism exists but the technique and flavours need perfecting. In the meantime, I’m working on the idea of a boiled sweet version which uses a much older scientific technique.”
http://newslite.tv/2010/10/11/willy-wonkas-gourmet-gum-now-a.html
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Not sure I'd want to eat nano tech... Also it sounds high tech enough that a stick would cost the same as a 3 course meal.
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