âBased on our geometrical calculation, flatly pack macaroni pasta could save more than 60% of the packaging space,â Yao tells Inverse.
âBecause more than half of the food packaging space, in this case, is used to pack air.â.
The research, accompanied by a delightful video and images of flat pastaâs springing to attention, was published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.
Once it hits the water, this pasta flower begins to spring from its flat-packed shape into a delicate flower.
Whatâs new â This is not the first time this team of researchers has attempted to design a more streamlined and flatter pasta.
Using different patterns of stamped grooves on these pasta noodles researchers can create any number of 3D pasta shapes that spring to life in water.
These flat-packed to 3D pasta shapes cook up in the same time as regular pasta and could potentially reduce packaging by 60 percent. »