Chew on some dinner plates
The Hindu
With consumption of single-use plastic on the rise in India, edible tableware makers are on a trendsetting mission
What if your dinner plate has more dietary fibre than your meal? With 43 grams of fibre and 16 grams of protein, edible plates might just fill the gap in your diet. These wheat bran plates (roughly 11 inches in diameter) called “Thooshan”, manufactured by Aura Exim and sold by Vir Naturals Pvt Ltd, are the latest to enter the edible tableware space. For those who want to pursue a sustainable lifestyle in India today, options are aplenty, from cloth bags and bamboo toothbrushes to chemical-free cosmetics. The next step is edible tableware that home-grown manufacturers have been pushing slowly yet surely. Though India has been slow to catch on, the change is sure to happen, says Vinayakumar B (Vinay), founder of Thooshan. “And for us, it isn’t purely business. The aim is to bring about a long-term change in the way people perceive plastic,” he adds.
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