Agro-Ecology and Crop Science

Food Nanotechnology

Food nanotechnology may be a branch of nanotechnology concerned with the appliance of nanotechnology to food or food packaging so on extend the life or safety of food, to detect harmful bacteria, or to supply stronger flavours. Nanotechnology has begun to seek out potential uses around functional food by engineering biological molecules toward functions various from those they need in nature, opening an entire new area of development. When nanotechnology or its application or Nano machine is employed during production, cultivation, processing or packaging of food then the food is named as Nano food. It doesn't mean that atomically modified food or food made by Nano machines.