Nanotech Foods – Will Nanotechnology Change What You Eat?

I am sitting reading nanotechnology research news and I’ve just found an interesting article about the US Department of Agriculture together with thethe National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

It was announced that they are giving more than 3.8 billion dollars in funding to support grants focused on using nanotechnology to find solutions to social challenges focused on the food industry environmental protection and nutrition.

What is known as I Nano science… they find very interesting and they had a university called Cornwell University that developed a new technology that can actually help bacteria sticking to medical equipment and food processing machinery.

Several universities has been given grants for developing new Nano science and nanotechnology, one of the most important issues in the future is to help to secure healthy food supply so we need to get rid of diseases and contaminants and other nasty things that can destroy our food.

The world is already in need of more food and we cannot produce food fast enough. Some believe that nanotechnology can be used to speed up the process. Today the food producers are required to have clean surfaces to keep bacteria, viruses and general contaminants away from our food under production.

Nano can actually keep a surface clean from bacteria for up to six months, and for shorter period of time, when it’s really required to keep an area completely clean from virus and bacteria on an instant.

There are super strong coating that can last for 5 days on the walls ceiling and flooring, you can also protect instruments made of steel by using a dedicated coating for that purpose.

In the future I believe that everything will be coated using nanotech coatings. Your car, your house, the inside of your house, your clothes, your shoes and your day to day appliances.

We probably also will see actual food being produced using nanotechnology, let me give you one example: Everybody say it so healthy to drink water  the challenge with water isn’t water anymore, it may look like water in the bottle that you purchase on 7/11 but if you actually read what it contains….. You may find, that for sure it’s not mineral water, most likely it is a basic distilled water product.

The problems with un-natural processed water is that the water molecules are quite large  and the cells in your body needs water to penetrate the cell to keep them alive and healthy.

The challenge however is, that if you can imagine that your cells have a mouth and they are going to eat the water molecule to stay healthy and have a mouth the size of an orange and the water molecule is the size of a football…. It’s very difficult for your cells to consume the water molecules.

Using nano science we can split the water molecules down in size making them the size of a sherry, easily consumed by the cells in your body. Naturally healthier cells means a healthier body, so trust me when I say, that in the future you will be drinking nanotechnology water.

Previously I have been speaking about the company Samsung that have developed what they call the silver nano refrigerator. This refrigerator is coated with a special silver nano paint to keep your food completely free from bacteria and viruses inside the refrigerator.

The same type of technology is also used for example air condition units.

I find this very fascinating…  small nano particles flying around the air that you cannot see with your eye but keeping you completely safe! How will this be able to change the way we  control our foods?  I think that these technologies will be applied soon as a standard in any container where you can store food, this will enable us to move food and fresh food longer distances and still keeping it fresh and free from bacteria. It can also be used in countries  where we need to store food for longer period of time the normal an example United Nations Food Program  this is an exciting time for us  in creating new ways of feeding the world.

You may wonder what type of chemical or material is used for keeping food free from bacteria in the world? I can tell you that’s the key word here is titanium dioxide is a type of a metal with high anti bacterial benefits and it has been used for storing food and maintaining food such as yogurt for many years already.

The Titanium additive can enhance or prevents  absorption of nutrients and  keep fruit fresher longer over a period of time.

Actually the nano packing industry is larger than a the Nano food industry.

Packaging exists that can provide protection from moisture and bacteria and there is also a special nano science that would absorb oxygen before it reaches the food.

Within the Nano packaging world we can list more than 1,600 manufacturers of nanotech consumer products. Thee manufacturers  is required to provide proof that the nanotechnology foods are safe as the FDA has not created any testing routines of its own.

European Food Safety Authority have done risk assessment reports on how do you eat and is addressing the issue of nanotech in food during the same.

The researchers believe that humans do not react negatively to nano additives, after all it’s the same food, it’s just split by Nano laser into much smaller pieces, example if you were to put a pizza through a Nano lacer you’d have 1 billion pizzas the size of a head of a pin.

Nano means small and it’s funny how I actually small they can be.  One of the most interesting benefits of not knowing food is actually that it can enhance the flavor of almost anything you eat  I don’t know if this is because your tongue absorbs to taste easier with a small molecules created  or it just simply makes it more yummy  Crystal’s are added to the food offering more taste and texture.

Don’t be surprised if soon will be selling the Nano pizza! Maybe Nanofixit will come up with one…

Besides helping us enjoying food, Nano tech can also be used to create small electronics that can help us to track food easier and tell you the truth about the region of where it came from and where it’s been, this is of course very useful in fresh foods and seafood.

After all, besides actually helping you store, save and enjoy food even more Nanotech can also be used for growing food, vegetables or fruits faster.

They are today exposed to chemicals to make them grow faster and last longer. Using organic Nano fertilizers his problem will be gone…

We are now looking at a new era of making your food grow faster in a completely organic way.

Do you feel hungry?

I do.

Author
Paul Brennan

Comments On Dr. Michio And The Holy Grail Of Nanotechnology

I’m so pleased to welcome Dr. Michio Kaku just got his new book last week it was a number one bestseller and now he is here to talk about. I’m sure many of you are familiar with his previous books, which include hyperspace Einstein physics of the impossible, and physics of the future. In his latest work Dr. Kaku, who is in case you missed it, l have an extensive expertise as a physicist in what technology can have in store for the future and he have high enthusiasm as he writes which I think is really infectious. The scope of his latest book is truly amazing and talks about mysteries of consciousness of thought and memories. As you know he also have some great ideas on the latest technology and here is an outline of what I heard discussed in the past interview.

Nanobots or Nano robots is already existing and has become more sophisticated, more intelligent and smaller than ever on a Nano scale. There is a chance that they could become very superior and be able to help us human beings with any illness that we have in our body on Nano scale in which case we should think about merging with them and let them travel around in our body as Nano policemen and ensure that our cells stay healthy.

There are actually already Nanobots that can find cancer cells and swim around and neuteralise them.

If we one day want to merge with robots does it have to be like a Star Wars movie? Many people think that it will be unpleasant and they have this vision of having robobots with implants dangling from their head looking like some monster robot from a science fiction movie.  No, this is not the case.

The so-called Nano implants could be microscopic. We may be able to enhance the power of the mind and the brain in a way that basically would enable you to increase your intelligence and become better and smarter and faster thinking than you would believe is possible.

The holy grail of nanotechnology is the replicator that is usually something in the device that changes whenever you put into what you want. This is straight out of Star Trek movie with microscopic robots that you cant’t even see that cuts atoms apart and rearrange molecules so you take a glass and make into a plate and plates can be made into a table. It’s simply incredible.

But does this define physics? Could it really be possible to change things on a Nano molecular level and change the appearance and shape and form of objects?

Yes, mother nature is already doing it as it takes hamburger and fries and turn it into a baby in less than 9 months. If you look at the way a baby is created and how it changes its shape into perfection in such a short time, we already know that the nature already have the power to change objects. In some years we will be able to do it too… but in seconds using Nanobots and Nano scaled technology.

DNA in tissues of molecules that are put together in a precise point and then rearranged to create a miracle taking one by one molecule…. Using the same ideas and concepts we will be able to re created limbs and organs of the body to help humans live longer and stronger.

Engineering technology is already in their studies and tests far beyond anything that we have at the present time.

I know some people think that the Nano robots looks like something right out of a Lego movie and it’s going to look at something that you would imagine from a Lego set. At the atomic scale quantum effects start to come into play the location of an atom with clippers and with blow torches and with the ability to cut molecules that is times smaller than an atom.

We have something called the Casimir effect, this is making the robots not have clippers and metal like finger but actually sticky fingers like a lizard, butting edge #Nanotechnology.

It is possible now with a technology that is still far more advanced than we have at the present time, Earth has had three and a half billion years to play with things so I think the Nano doctors in the would should still be given a little time to come up with the next step solutions to change world.

Look at civilization hundreds of years ago back in the 17 hundreds what was long-distance communication

Actually in the 17 hundreds it was impossible to have long distance communication, the longest they could have was yelling at a window, that’s how people communicated, by yelling at each other!

And how about transport? In the 17 hundreds getting stuck in the mud with a wagon was like today is getting stuck in traffic… things move on.

With something called thermodynamics we can calculate how much energy you can extract of a lump of coal that created the Industrial Revolution. Steam engines locomotives, which allowed us to replace human labour. In the 1800 we had our team evolution the Industrial Revolution begin to harness electricity, giving us the electric age and transistors and lasers providing the space program… and then GPS, we had three waves of innovation electricity and magnetism and high technology.

Now to know what is the Fourth Way? this is the big question and what will dominate the rest of the 21st century of molecular physics, a technology that is the physics of molecules used in manufacturing and which controls the life and then artificial intelligence…

The questions are many but I really believe it will be a combination of nanotech and molecular physics that will create the next revolution and enable us to do incredible things inspired by Mother Nature. Things are not going to be what they look like to be, that is for sure, shape shifting will be a word that we will get to know more as Nanobots and Nanotech will take us to shape shifting molecular levels that seem to be the next natural step in the research we have now.

Author
Mr. Paul Brennan