The product is called Le Whif and it will make its US debut at the All Candy Expo in May – a confection industry gathering at McCormick Place in Chicago.
David Edwards, who helped develop inhalable insulin and is working on an inhalable TB vaccination, threw out the idea of breathable food while teaching an engineering sciences class at Harvard several years ago, says the Tribune article.
Along with several students, Edwards developed a modified inhaler and settled on using chocolate particles that are 80 to 300 microns – too big to enter the lungs and trigger coughing, he said. The device coats the user’s mouth with the taste of chocolate, at less than one calorie. Edwards envisions people enjoying Le Whif along with a cup of coffee.
“We believe strongly that there’s a whole new way of eating … by aerosol,” said Edwards in a telephone interview. “The big picture is that for thousands of years, we’ve eaten with our hands or, more recently, with chopsticks and forks and things. We’re sort of moving on. People have been whiffing [my product] here in Paris for the past few months.”
Source: Chicago Tribune
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