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Survey says 1 out of 4 people open to trust 3D printed Food!

3D printed food doubt
3D printed food doubt

I’m sure as much as we admire and even love 3D printing technology, it is a no-brainer that there can be some who are yet to get a grip of the technology, especially its applications in the food industry, at least 3 out of 4 people are not okay with 3D printed food on their plate.

Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, company providing property and casualty insurance to its customers, conducted a survey as a part of its  2015 Consumer Perceptions of Business Risk Survey. As per the survey, only 23% of the respondents are okay with having a 3D printed food.

Steven Hernandez, the worldwide loss control manager for the Chubb Group said, “Consumers also are embracing many of the products and services being developed through new technologies, but they clearly are concerned about how companies are managing the emerging risks of such innovation,”

3d printed building
3D printed villa

But however it seems a whopping 77% of them wouldn’t mind using 3D printed prosthetic limb. Also, 64% of them said they would like to wear or use 3D printed accessories, clothes or shoes. So, probably 3D printing technology in fashion industry has higher chances of earning revenues. A decent 58% voted in favour of 3D printed automotive part. 51% of the respondents are cool with staying in a 3D printed house. And around 8% of the crowd who are still not convinced about the 3D printing technology and this percent of people said they want nothing out of 3D printing technology.

Laurel Shoe on model
3D Printed shoes

Since it is a company dealing with the property of its customers there were certain questions survey respondents were also asked if they trust the 3D printing materials and an astonishing figure of 60% expressed that they are immensely concerned about the safety of 3D printing materials and the objects and 54% of the total respondents are concerned about the durability and performance of 3D printed items.

Independent public opinion and market research firm, Opinion Research Corporation is the entity responsible for conducting the survey this year.

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German startup claims to resolve major food 3D printing challenges

3D.printed food
3D.printed food

3D printing in food technology  is a slow growing area in 3D printing industry. The reasons for this is that the printers are pretty costly and the budding food entrepreneurs or home chefs are not been able to afford the machines as of now. Whether it’s 3D printing a garnish for cocktail drink, decorating a wedding cake or finding optimized solution for NASA, researchers are already on the path of creating suitable software, 3D printers and edible filaments for the food manufacturing industry.

With 3D printing “food designers” are using their full creativity to decorate food toppings like the way they have always imagined… and maybe more..!! This edgy “marketing trait” (if you see) that a baker might try to give to his wedding cake might come up a bit costly.

But all problems don’t last long, and 3D printing industry is no exception. A Germany-based startup named Print2Taste has a solution in the form of a 3D printer – Bocusini. Bocusini will be a standlone 3D printer. Additionally, Print2Taste will be providing a highly affordable kit for retrofitting someone’s existing 3D printer.

Experts are of the opinion that even though it is a breathrough concept in the 3D printing food industry, the food-based extrudable filaments are going to be the game-changers for Print2Taste. The company claims to have done a lot of research before coming up with this 3D printer. They claim to have worked with “several leading academic and industrial food research and food”.

food filamentSee image above of the different kinds of extrudable food filaments by Print2Taste – Among them are the Fruit Jelly, Chocolate, marzipan and etc.. The process is simple: Make sure you have a design ready. Send the file to Bocusini through WiFi, then load a cartridge as per your taste buds accordingly. then 3D print as the way you want it.

bocusini food print

Bocusini is gearing up for its Kickstarter campaign which is due May, 2015. More updates will be on the way, soon when the Kickstarter campaign begins.

We at think3D defiitely sees this innovation as a cost-minimizing solution for the food 3D printing industry, especially for the ones who already own a 3D printer. Even though it is a little challenging one, especially when it comes to convincing the consumers (the one’s who’ll be consuming the food 3D printed) about the safety, but slowly and eventually we believe 3D food printing has started taking a logical stride. We hope more innovations prove to be more true and believable for consumers.

Bocusini injection-led nozzleThe end point looks like an injection point through which the “extruded” food filaments spews on the bed