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Will the public swallow nanofood?

Nature Nanotechnology volume 4, pages 790–791 (2009)Cite this article

Nanotechnology could have an impact on many areas of the food industry, including packaging, nutrient delivery and food quality, but it is too early to tell if it will be embraced by food companies and the general public.

“In the past, traditional food technology has approached everything from the micron-length scale, which has inevitably hindered our understanding of food systems at their most basic level,” says Raffael Mezzenga of the Institute of Food Science and Nutrition at ETH Zurich. “The study of food at the nanoscale can only be achieved by importing other methods traditionally used in materials science and nanotechnology into the field of food science.”

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Chun, A. Will the public swallow nanofood?. Nature Nanotech 4, 790–791 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.359

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