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PostJune 11, 2020

A 2017 Rabobank-MIT Food Innovation Prize-winning startup group has found a solution that could dramatically reduce plastic packaging for produce

Visual "before" and "after" comparisons of two bananas after nine days. One received a silk coating and remains yellow while the other didn't

Cambridge Crops, co-founded by J-WAFS PI Benedetto Marelli, is using silk-based biodegradable coatings to extend the self life of  produce. The technology could alter current methods of food packaging that rely heavily on plastics. Read more.

by Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS)
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Food, Water & Agriculture

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