Agriculture and Plant Science

Food Nanotechnology

Food Nanotechnology is a branch of nanotechnology concerned with the application of nanotechnology to food or food packaging so as to extend the life or safety of food, to detect harmful bacteria, or to produce stronger flavors. Nanotechnology has begun to find potential uses around functional food by engineering biological molecules toward functions various from those they have in nature, opening a whole new area of development. When nanotechnology or its application or Nanomachine is used during production, cultivation, processing or packaging of food then the food is called as Nanofood. It does not mean that atomically modified food or food made by Nanomachines.