FoodTech and the future of food: foods printed in 3D and created with the help of algorithms

The company Food Ink is presented as the first restaurant in the world of 3D printing. In 2016, he opened a store in London. There, not only the food was printed, but also the dishes, cutlery, chairs, tables and lamps.

The idea was born from the spirit of entrepreneur Antony Dobrzensky and chef Marcio Barradas. Today, this project works as a traveling gastronomic proposal that crosses major cities such as Barcelona, ​​Las Vegas or Tokyo.

The kitchen with 3D printing is not for everyone. It's expensive: from 280 euros covered, although there are cheaper options. Those who have the means and who decided to see what it was, for example, were Shakira and Gerard Pique, who tried different recipes printed in a restaurant in Barcelona.

"Inks" of food ink printers are processed pasta. The dishes become the artistic expression of distinguished chefs. It's not just technology, it's art.

That means food Technologythat is, food technology. FoodTech is a term used in the business world to refer to food technology, a branch of science that deals with the production processes that produce them. Y today we call it foodtech to companies who use technology to create food.

3D printing is part of this "food revolution". When NASA entered this technology in 2013, the term started to sound a little louder.

Six years ago, the US Space Agency commissioned an engineer from the Systems and Materials Research Society (SMRC) to develop a printer that can create food in six months. I had to process and synthesize nutritionally adequate meals for astronauts.

The ingredients are powders inserted into cartridges that, combined with oils and liquids, create layers that can create, for example, a pizza.

Cell farming: vegetable meat

Aden Díaz Nocera is one of the founders of Lifesi, an Argentine company from the province of Córdoba, dedicated to the development of 3D printing systems for research. Their systems are used in different areas of research.

He and his team developed a 3D printing system for bioprinting and developed a research and development institute. with the central search line in 3D printing with cells.

Explain to Infobae: "Worldwide, bioprinting is recognized as the technology of" traditional 3D printing. "There are different technologies applied to structures seeded with cells, or well lestryouctura even during the process of printing tJ & # 39; I embedded cells. "

In the field of health, bioprinting makes great promises, even if the organs 3D does not applynot in patients, is found phase research And what happens to the food?

"What is the 3D printing of food in general, it's given in aplIcations as the nutraceutica (combination of nutrients and drugs). En this caseor the cells are not necessarily incorporated, so what you want to reproduce is not a biological tissue but any other food"he explains.

On the other hand, add: "Thea cellular agriculture or what they call 3D meat printing, is trying to make a biol tissueorby 3D printing. The application is different What in health but the technology isXactly the same".

To make these impressions, you they need printers capable of working under sterile conditions, is a aclean area. "These projects eliminate the need for animals for food production. For the vegetable meat May to print or to make some muscle"culminates.

For his part Jorge Leporati, coordinator of the manufacturing laboratoryyouITBA digital (Technological Institute of Buenos Aires), which will organize on May 22 and 23 the week of 3D printing in Buenos Aires, ensures Infobae: "The tMNWEwhat3D Printing Technologies they are very many and growing in growth, a the steps gigantic. "

Comment on the 3D food: "3D printing will progress in what is food, when there is really a joint s & # 39; venture (a commercial agreement) conot food companies. It is generally given that the machine is the person who creates the component that uses the machine.. To print according to the definition and what he proposes in his promotions and in his catasales logos, yes and only yes, we use this raw material".

Concludes: "And there will be machine settings that can never be touched. This usually happens with professional 3D printers. Ehe prepared (who goes in the pseudo syringe or the container) This will be depending on how you print the machine. Then, they must exist good agreements with companies that are preparing this Entrance"

Food created by algorithms

"Hand different types of technology and what we use is artificial intelligence (AI) to define What Mixing the food together could give a result equal to that of a food of animal origin"he says to Infobae Matías Muchnik, CEO of NotCo, Chilean startup that replicates with algorithms mayonnaise or milk, for example.

The company has created a Giuseppe, the algorithm that runs through different databases to recreate foods of animal origin using pure vegetables.

"Giuseppe is an artificial intelligence. This is an algorithm that crosses different databases (for example, more than 30,000 edible plants, sensory information, food composition) and tells you, for example, that if you use chickpea instead of eggs you can get a mayonnaise. equal to that of animal origin, but with pure vegetables", says Muchnik.

He concludes, "People are coming back to nature." More and more, it is perceived that labels are hindered by anyone, and the use of chemicals is rejected. There is only a 30% chance that we can feed the next 15 years. NotCo it comes to show that there is a way and the future of food is based on the plants"

NotCo has millionaire investments, for example from Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon.