Chocolate, sugar, butter, vegetables, fruit and even meat. The 3D food printer of startup byFlow can print more than 50 different ingredients. In the 4th episode of High Tech Stories you meet Nina Hoff, CEO of byFlow. 'The future is happening now, so we better be part of it'. 

3D food printing has a lot of benefits. Besides the fact that it looks awesome, it can also help against food waist. Nina: 'Food gets thrown away, for example because it has a spot on it or because it doesn't look appealing enough. We can give this food a second life with 3D food printing. We can put it in our printer, and make a beautiful dish of it.' 

Another example: imagine people with swallowing problems. 'They cannot even eat food. They are always limited to nutri drinks or puree. These people don't have fun anymore with eating. With 3D food printing we can bring this fun back!'

First edible filling for a 3D printer
Thanks to byFlow's printer the wellknown Dutch food company Verstegen and Jan Smink, head chef of the Librije, developed the worlds first edible filling for a 3D-printer. A smart idea, because not all restaurants have the time to make the fillings themselves. 'They want to make it easier for the middle segment of the horeca to also start with 3D food printing. So they came up with a vegetable puree, which is made of red biet and cardamom, a herb.'

byFlow is located at High Tech Campus Eindhoven. More information, click here.