Edible Plastic: Man Eats Plantic!
by Justin Thomas, Virginia 
on 06.15.06
Previously, we featured the amazing Plantic — a bioplastic made out of corn starch and colored with plant-based dyes. Now we have heard that some crazy Aussies are eating the plastic to prove that Plantic is completely non-toxic. Well, apparently, the plastic tastes like "stale bread" — so it's not something you'd want to serve your dinner guests. However, the experimenters did show that the plastic was benign enough to be kept down! See more at Cryptic Moth In Flight. :: Via: Hugg
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My wife says:
Talk about processed food!
Probably breaks down well in the composter too. Sounds like a neat invention!
I'd like to know if the plastic has a metabalite, and whether bactaria can further break the metabalite down. That would make this stuff particularly nice and huggable.
as a plublicity stunt they should have someone drink a bottle of water and then eat the bottle.
Gotta be a bit careful. Back in the 60' sales people for pesticides designed for farms would drink the pesitcides (we are talking DDT here) in front of the farmers to show how safe it was.
I don't know if the process for changing it into bioplastic changes the strucutre of the starch or adds anything more to the protien, but as always, be careful.
Edible plastic!
Whatever next?
I'm interested on sampling it hehe!
the kids who invented this were on Figure it Out
(to the user above me)
hah i remember that! that was in fact, the reason i looked 'edible plastic' up in the first place. i was curious as to whether any developments had been made to market it yet, but apparently not...