Novel foods
A Hungarian company has developed an ice
gel for soft drinks or ice-cream containing CO2
bubbles of 1-10 nm in diameter for effervescence
(http://files.nanobio-raise.org/ Downloads/ Nano
technology-and-Food-fullweb.pdf). Nanotech spray
is available in which Nanodroplets 87 nm are used
to enhance the uptake of vitamin B12 and other
supplements for use in foods (Bouwmeester, 2007).
Kraft Foods and NanoteK consortium have plans to
incorporate the electronic tongue (which is
chemical change based biosensor) into foods to
release accurately controlled amounts of the
suitable molecules for the customized tailor-foods
(Shelke, 2006; Sozer and Kokini, 2009).