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26May/14Off

3D printer used to create synthetic fruit

[Phil Lelyveld comment: OK, "3D Printing" has finally jumped the shark.  This prints fruit the way a coffee machine with a cream and sugar button "prints" coffee.]

3D Fruit Printer, a machine that "prints" three-dimensional "fruit". It is not, however, actual fruit: instead, it's a sort of reconstituted version that can be any flavour.

The printer uses a molecular gastronomy technique calledspherification for converting liquid to a series of gelatinous globules resembling caviar or tapioca pearls. For fruit juice, this means mixing the juice with alginic acid. This mixture is then dripped into a cold bath of calcium chloride; the resultant reaction produces a skin around the ball of liquid, which pops when you bite into it (although you should really rinse it off first).

See the full story here: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/item/37024-3d-printer-used-to-create/

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