Many people
enjoy an occasional piece of fruit during a healthy break. However, biting a rotten apple or pear can put a damper on a well-deserved time-out. The young
designer Jagjit Chodha has come up with a revolutionary fruit bowl that can put
a stop to being confronted with rotten fruit in your fruit bowl. The bowl was
designed for the Made in Brunel show, an event that is a platform for
innovative work of students.
A warning light
The fruit
bowl designed by Jagjit Chodha is equipped with a sensor that detects ethylene, a chemical that causes the ripening process of fruit. There is a series of LED’s
that light up as the sensor in the fruit bowl detects ethylene. The more ethylene, the more LED's light up. So, the LED’s tell you how far the fruit is still away from
being rotten. This system allows you to eat your fruit before it gets moldy and
you have to throw it away.
Limiting food waste
People
throw away a lot of food each year. It’s a fact we sometimes hear in the news and we have to do something about this irresponsible waste. The
revolutionary fruit bowl can be part of limiting the huge amount of food we
dispose of every year because the normal action when you see a moldy piece of
fruit in your fruit bowl, is to throw it in the bin. This fruit
bowl lets you know in time that your fruit is about to be unsuitable for
consumption, so you can eat it before it gets rotten and you have to throw it
away.
What do you
think? Is this a useful fruit bowl or do you think it’s just a silly idea? And
could it make people think about their food consumption and the waste of food?
Please comment!
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