Gallery: A Tiny, 3-D Printed Garden You Can Gobble in One Bite

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    In a decade, this bizarre little garden might be part of your dinner.
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    Chloe Rutzerveld

    These 3-D printed snacks look like wild inventions that get served at restaurant-laboratories like Noma. It's actually a future-of-food concept aimed at improving health and food production issues.
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    An edible structure gets 3-D printed.
  • The structure is like an exoskeleton for agaragar an algaebased jelly that can fertilize spores.
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    The structure is like an exoskeleton for agar-agar, an algae-based jelly that can fertilize spores.
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    Mushrooms or watercress can grow inside, sprouting about five days after they've been planted.
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    Then, you eat it. Agar-agar and all.
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