Add a little extra crunch to your meal by eating your cutlery! Sound crazy? Maybe not. A company in India, called Bakey’s, has developed edible cutlery to help reduce environmental waste.
The edible cutlery is made of a mix of sorghum, rice, and wheat flours. Flavors can be added, such as onion, tomato, garlic, and ginger. They are baked until dry but are not so hard they cannot be chewed. The unflavored cutlery does not dominate the flavors of the meal. They also hold up to liquids because of the high sorghum content. If eating them is not an option, they will degrade safely in any outside environment.
By eating the cutlery, the added benefit is nutrition. They contain fiber, iron, protein, calcium, folic acid and B vitamins.
Currently, edible cutlery is in the initial stages of production.
Learn more at www.bakeys.com/.
