3D Food Printing: The Answer To World Hunger

Being one of the most promising innovations nowadays, 3D Printing has already impacted in different areas of the business world. During 2018, these innovations reached a new climax: Scientists figured out a way to revolutionize the food industry: cooking ingredients are being converted into a paste to be manipulated by a printer, creating a customized product and structure.

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• But, how can this solve malnutrition problems?

In his publication The World Is Headed for a Food Security Crisis,  Joseph Hincks, correspondent at Times Magazine highlights that “The world currently produces more than enough food to feed everyone, yet 815 million people (roughly 11% of the global population) went hungry in 2016, according to the U.N.”

Food shortage and malnutrition are a global epidemic, but it is definitely a far-reaching dilemma for several countries in Africa and Southeast Asia. Food supply in these nations is extremely volatile: their reservoir depends significantly on climate changes and or the presence of natural disasters. Indeed, throughout history, these countries proved to lack the ability to control the quality and quantity of food required for an appropriate nutrition. For this reason, 3D Printing seems to be a feasible solution towards the mitigation of malnourishment. This new innovation offers the possibility to compose food with the necessary macronutrients the body needs: proteins, carbohydrates and lipids. In this way, within a single meal, the government could provide a basic and economic meal to each individual fulfilling the fundamental food requirements. Moreover, the existence of local 3D food printers foster negligible transportation costs- shrinking exponentially national expenses and universal food wastage- a new opportunity of producing renewable, customized food.

Food printing revolution could not only solve humanitarian malnutrition problems, but also dietary issues; it is an accessible approach of adjusting caloric needs or allergy requirements. 3D Food printing is definitely the new harvesting.