For most people, the concept of capsulized food often conjures up images of space travelers ingesting meals condensed into a compact pill. However, in modern-day reality, things are quite different. Capsulized foods are meant to positively impact the world and solve one of our greatest problems.
To understand what capsulized foods are and how they’re positively changing the way the world eats, it is useful to see the problem that capsulized foods are designed to solve. In a word, the problem is that we lack.
Despite the rising awareness of eating healthy, most attempts to provide people with healthy measl and nutritional products suffer from some sort of ‘lack’.
There is a lack of convenience. Many foods aren’t packaged for convenience. These convenient foods are often processed and have artificial ingredients. And, preparing meals typically requires a luxury of time many consumers do not have.
Portability also determines convenience. This is a direct extension of convenience. A meal with unsaturated fats, glycemic carbohydrates, and complete proteins on the dinner table is a uncommon sight indeed.
Our society lacks resources. Our world has processed and natural foods. We don’t understand how to combine these foods in a healthy way. The choices we have might not have products that fit our needs. Whether one is on a low carbohydrate, low fat, or isometric diet, discovering the right foods and incorporating them into our daily lifestyle requires effort.
Nutrient-density is also lacking. The nutrition within a given food gets lesser as you get more processed. Ounce for ounce, many processed foods possess much less nutritional value (or, density) than whole foods such as fruits and vegetables. However, many processed foods have great merit since they do provide dense nutrition in a small quantity of food. You should now establish foods which are rich in nutrients and include them in your diet.
Capsulized foods provide the answer. Some call them “compact liquid foods,” they usually require no cooking and are easy to travel with. At the same time, capsulized foods are liquefied, which allows them to be quickly consumed. This is of primary importance to eaters who simply don’t have time to prepare and then sit through a conventional meal. Capsulized foods are also rich in nutrients. As such, capsulized foods successfully solve the lack of convenience, portability, and nutrition-density in a single, cost-effective eating solution.
Yet there is another key aspect of capsulized foods that should be present; in fact, it’s arguably the most important aspect of all: taste[i].
No one will continue to eat a nutritional supplement if they do not like its taste. True, while persons are willing to tolerate foul-tasting cough medicine, they only do so because the frequency is a couple of times per year. Eating, however, is an activity – and for many, an enjoyable activity – that individuals engage in on a daily basis; several times a day, in fact. Asking people to tolerate unpalatable nutritional foods is simply not a reasonable expectation, and for years, any attempt to create capsulized food has been unable to overcome this hurdle. It was only until recently that producers actually understood that when they developed capsulized food that taste is the key to their success.
Capsulized foods are able to provide a complete array of macro and micronutrients. Consumers feel satiated and are nourished. And at around 100 to 200 calories, capsulized foods are appropriate for those on calorie-reduced diets, or those who simply want to maintain their weight.
Athletes are no longer the primary target market for these sorts of products since people are sick of being exposed to unhealthy foods. This broad group of consumers is interested in healthy decisions, but has proven its absolute power in punishing products that fail to reach the lofty bar set by taste buds. They also demand convenience, and capsulized foods deliver.
Capsulized foods have become portable, convenient, tasty, and have a great nutritional density. This bodes well for not only the current generation, but future generations as well, who will have access to capsulized foods as viable and intelligent eating options.
REFERENCES
[i] Source: “Taste Matters”. AFIC. http://www.afic.org/Taste Matters.htm
[ii] Source: “Sports Drinks and Energy Bars: Fuelling the Couch Potato”. Kalorama Information. http://www.kaloramainformation.com/editor/viewcontent.asp?prid=373
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