Height: 5 ft 8.5" athlete who can give a punch & certainly take one too! :)
What a concept! ROFLMAO I can only imagine the price tag on a bag of these suckers! Colorful and oh so yummy like- bring on the bag of blueberry- okay NOT! Albeit it will cause gas & someone may get "PLUGGED UP" from having too much paper consumption!
I don't think I'd eat this. I think kale chips are a much better option, now if they wouldn't be so expensive, I could eat them all the time. (Although they are fairly easy to make and I have made them myself)
Edible PAPER???? Oh ickkkkkkk. One time I picked up a bag of Atkins chips to eat with my lunch: the darn things tasted like cardboard sprayed with Chee-tos cheez!
I can't imagine it having any real appeal for the average person, or even the average dieter. For most folks (at best), I would expect it to be a novelty item (a practical joke or a one-time experiment).
Sadly I think it will have the most appeal to the people for whom it would be most unhealthy - crash dieters and people with eating disorders.
What's interesting is that if they marketed in a different way, I can totally see it appealing to dieters in general, like the Shirataki noodles.
Change "eat our chips made of low-calorie paper" to "our chips are made of cellulose fiber, which allows us to make these great-tasting chips with practically no calories". Both are true - one is novelty, and one is a diet product.
The restaurant moto in Chicago does this. Their menu is printed on edible paper made from soybeans that is flavored. I don't have the kind of cash it takes to eat there though, so I can't tell you how it is!
For charity, Moto also infuses sheets of paper with over 2,000 calories and sends them to starving children around the world. Cheap to ship with a long shelf life.
Sorry for the t/j, I've just always found that so interesting.