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solo@slrpnk.netM to Fungi: mycelia, mushrooms & more@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago

New water-proof and oil-proof food packaging material made of mycelium and cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) from wood

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New water-proof and oil-proof food packaging material made of mycelium and cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) from wood

umaine.edu

solo@slrpnk.netM to Fungi: mycelia, mushrooms & more@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago
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Researchers use fungus to create plastic-free food packaging - UMaine News - The University of Maine
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Walk into any grocery store and you will find aisle after aisle of food wrapped in a host of different plastics. Concern about chemicals and plastic in food packaging have been growing in recent years. A recent study reported that over a quarter of the 16,000 chemicals used to make…
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    Eaten by microbes. The coating is fungus so it probably will decompose in compost or dump.

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      Yeah that’s what I meant. Guess we could eat it too but not much nutrition in it for us. 😄

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