Food for Thought: Pucker Up

Abstract

Pop Quiz! What isn’t food, but must be designed for consumption?    Quite a lot of products are designed this way, it turns out. The entire category of oral medications and dental hygiene products are designed with their intended or incidental consumption in mind. Any toddler’s caregiver will tell you that as much non-toxic crayon ends up in the toddler as it does on the paper (or wall). And cosmetics are designed with the knowledge that components will be at least absorbed through the skin, and sometimes consumed more directly.