Straws made with bacteria could be an eco-friendly alternative to paper or plastic, and you can even eat them - though they taste like extremely dry coconut
When it comes to drinking with a straw, there is no perfect option – plastic straws can releaseinto your beverage, paper straws buckle and bend when they get wet and metal straws can damage your teeth. Now there is a solution: edible straws made by bacteria.
Qing-Fang Guan at the University of Science and Technology of China and his colleagues made straws out of bacterial cellulose, which is similar to theSubscribe for unlimited digital access
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