food

3D Printing A Meatless World: Ersatz in 3D Printed Food

3D printing food is seen as a sideshow by most in our industry. When we have dug deep into food 3D printing or looked at 3D printed salmon, 3D printed…

Janne Kyttanen: Live Entrepreneurship and 3D Printing Value Networks 3D Pops in Retail

This time on my 3D Value Networks chats, I had the pleasure of chatting with David Greenfeld, co-founder and CEO of Dream Pops. Dream Pops develops innovative, plant-based foods. Their ice…

Live Entrepreneurship & 3D Value Networks: Lack of Innovation in Frozen Confections

In this continuing series, I’m having a look at how value networks can be used to shape the future of industries as well as fundamentally disrupt them. Previously we looked…

Wikifactory and Thought For Food Challenge: Solutions to Sustainably Feed the World

There are many ongoing efforts to use 3D printing for the purposes of increasing sustainability in the world, from marine applications and reducing plastic waste to clean water initiatives and…

Columbia University Researchers Invent Way to Simultaneously 3D Print and Cook Food

3D printed food has been around for a while, but compared to other areas of 3D printing, it’s still relatively undeveloped. For the most part, 3D printed food consists of…

Chloe Rutzerveld Reflects on Four Years of Mini 3D Printed Vegetable Garden Edible Growth

Imagine not only holding a tiny ecosystem in your hand, but then eating it, in just a bite or two. That’s the concept behind Edible Growth, a 3D printed “mini…

Oceanz and Cooperative DOOR Partner to Stop Food Waste with 3D Printed Vegetables

I recently saw a viral tweet circulating that read, “My waiter asked, ‘Now, do we want straws OR do we want to save the turtles?’ and honestly we all deserve that…

3D Printed Food: Easy as Pie?

3D printed food has caught chefs’, journalists’ and the general public’s attention for a number of years now. There is however a lot of disinformation around the subject as well…

Will We Be Eating 3D Printed Meat Next Year?

Not many people like to think much about where their meat actually comes from. I’m no vegan, or even vegetarian, but I admit that I get a little bit queasy…

Empa Researchers Use 3D Printed Fruit-Shaped Molds to Develop Artificial Fruit Sensor

You know what they say, an apple a day keeps the doctor away! I’m one of those people who has to have fruit every single day – whether it’s bananas…

CIA Explores Future of Edible 3D Prints

No, not that CIA. I’m talking about the Culinary Institute of America (remember to use your context clues!) A lab at the CIA has been equipped by 3D Systems with a retrofitted…

Everything but the People is 3D Printed at Pop-Up Restaurant Food Ink.

3D printing is that exciting new toy that everybody wants to play with because it looks so good in the commercials. There’s just about no area of life that hasn’t…

CE Week in NYC: Nuni Takes the Pain Out of Making Tortillas

There were a lot of interesting gadgets to see on the exhibit floor at CE Week. Squeaking by the techies lining up to see quadcopter racing or for free giveaways, I was…

Do We Want 3D Printed Snacks?

The wave of things that people want to 3D print has grown to tsunami proportions. We’ve seen stories about printed organs, printed engines, and printed lingerie. It doesn’t take too…

Using Cellulose to 3D Print Food

Remember when you were a kid and you just didn’t feel right, how your mom would make you a big, steaming hot bowl of cellulose to warm your tummy? No?…

SXSW 2015: 3D Printing Dominates Multiple Industries

The 3D printing industry will play a significant role in the 2015 South by Southwest Conference & Festival, which kicks off tomorrow. Just as it has since 1994, the interactive tech…

3D Printed Cutter Creates Awesome Donut Tacos

One of the most exciting elements of 3D printing is the ability to make food. It’s one subject that catches most everybody’s attention as they wonder what type of goodies will…

3D Print Farm Launches in Texas to Mass Produce Innovations for Worldwide Grassroots Food Production

Additive manufacturing, better known as 3D printing, promises to make waves in virtually every major industry in the world. The ability to bring the power of a manufacturing facility into…

3Digital Cooks Create a Dry Food 3D Printer Extruder

If you were to tell me five years ago that by 2015 we would be 3D printing food, I likely would have said that you were crazy. 2015 is certain…

DIY 3D Printed Sleek and Simple Culinary Objects

3D printed food is making headlines these days. From complicated and futuristic food replicator concepts to lower-tech printable, custom chocolates, 3D food is still in its infancy, really. And food…

Nestle Researchers are Looking to Create a ‘Star Trek’ Replicator or Food Synthesizer

If you are a fan of Star Trek, then probably one of your favorite futuristic gadgets on the show is the Star Trek Replicator. The Star Trek Replicator, not to…

3D Printing Inventor, Charles Hull, Amazed At Advancement of the Technology

Charles Hull, the American inventor of the 3D printer, declared in an Informationweek interview that he was truly amazed at the advancement in 3D printing technologies. He said that the…

Edible 3D Printed Treats Made of Crickets and Dung Beetles Are Here!

Over the last couple of years we have seen countless different objects 3D printed. We have also seen all sorts of materials used to print the objects. From plastics, to…