At FoodMattersLive, Claire Phoenix talked to Dr Gabriel Villar and Dr Vaiva Kalnikaitė and Dovetailed Company’s 3D fruit printing.
Cambridge, UK-based Dovetailed has created a device that uses a culinary technique known as spherification to build replica raspberries and blackcurrants using flavoured gel.
The droplets of gel are placed into a dish of solution, and positioned in such a way to mimic the shape and colour of various fruits, which are then spooned out of the dish and are instantly edible.
Fruit juices are mixed with powdered sodium alginate and then dripped into a bowl of cold calcium chloride. Each drop of the alginated liquid forms into a small sphere in the calcium solution and this solution causes the outer layer of each sphere to form a thin, flexible skin.
Claire talked to Dovetailed creative director and founder Dr Vaiva Kalnikaitė and chief inventor Dr Gabriel Villar.
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