[quote][b]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.[/b]
[img]http://newsliteimgs.s3.amazonaws.com/101011_gum2.jpg[/img]
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.”[/quote]
source: [url]http://newslite.tv/2010/10/11/willy-wonkas-gourmet-gum-now-a.html[/url]
i can't wait!
if you don't know what gourmet gum is: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrDuqlk4ZDA&feature=player_embedded[/media]
Yes, yes, yes! I love candy, it's all sweet and happy and lovely! Rainbooooooooows!
[editline]17th October 2010[/editline]
[quote]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.[/quote]
Made me giggle.
I see this either:
1.) Tasting nothing like the flavours it's supposed to.
or
2.) Being stupidly expensive and not really worth buying for a bit of gum.
Holy fuck there better be steak flavor.
Just hope they don't have blueberry pie flavour.
I hope they make prank ones that start out tasting like a banana split then suddenly switch over to semen
Hoping for Vodka for drink.
[quote=zeketwo;25468807]i hope they make prank ones that start out tasting like a banana split then suddenly switch over to semen[/quote]
what the christ.
Think of the monies this would make!
:signings:
I see an HPLC machine in the background, I suppose they use it to separate out the flavoring agents.
i hope there's a buffalo wing flavor
i hope they have gum flavor...
Science! :science:
i mean ye olde gum that was made from tree's
[editline]17th October 2010[/editline]
damn automerge!
This has been a dream of mine since I was young. I fucking love science.
Wow, cool article and five-star journalism.
A gem amongst In the News
We should really be using this technology for something better than gum.
While it may [b]taste[/b] like the foods, it won't really fill you up like actually eating them. :smith:
The main reason I eat is because i'm hungry, and i'm sure as hell a small stick of gum won't fill me up.
I hope they make a snozzberry flavoured one.
[QUOTE=GoldenGnome;25469006]Wow, cool article and five-star journalism.
A gem amongst In the News[/QUOTE]
It's a cool topic, but I really fail to see how the article is in any way 'five-star' journalism. They take a cursory look at the facts of the situation, and give the barest of time frames for its development. The article provides almost no background on what technology is being used to produce them, and what other potential applications this process has. There's a real lack of any depth in the article. I'd give it two, maybe three out of five.
i nostalgia'd hard at the video
I thought we couldn't handle nano-particles, because they're small enough to pierce and screw up our cells. How did he make eating them safe?
[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;25468807]I hope they make prank ones that start out tasting like a banana split then suddenly switch over to semen[/QUOTE]
But I like semen.
[QUOTE=Rasrap Smurf;25469827]I hope they make a snozzberry flavoured one.[/QUOTE]
SNOZZBERRY!?
Who ever heard of a snozzberry!?
Chocolate Muffin flavour!!! :v:
Willy Wonka was the best movie ever.
Edit:
Whoever disagrees never saw the movie.
[QUOTE=scotland1;25470696]But I like semen.[/QUOTE]
Chew it upside down so it starts out tasting like semen then pranks you with a banana split
Yes!
Roast dinner during an English class hell yeah!
I wish I got paid in gum.
[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;25472459]Chew it upside down so it starts out tasting like semen then pranks you with a banana split[/QUOTE]
Damn you.
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