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# Expanding Bowl
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/expanding-bowl/
- Published: 2013-05-01T10:56:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:01:27.000Z
- Description: Hot water transforms biodegradable food packaging into a bowl, ready to be eaten from.
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Art & Design, Food & Drink, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21, #author-change-2025-05-28

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Showcasing traditionally simplistic Scandinavian design, Swedish research company [Innventia](http://www.innventia.com/en/?ref=protein.xyz) and designers Anna Glansen and [Hanna Billqvist](http://www.hannabillqvist.se/?ref=protein.xyz) have collaborated to create the Sustainable Expanding Bowl – packaging that has been designed to hold freeze-dried food, and to expand into a bowl users can eat from after adding hot water.  
Innventia’s design is commendable for a number of reasons; scaled-down and compressed packaging will lead to a saving on transport space and costs; the packaging itself is made from bio-based, bio-degradable material; and its crisp, white, twisted design, reminiscent of origami, is a visual prelude to the packet’s delectable contents.  
We’ve always got time for clever packaging, or, indeed, [disappearing packaging](http://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/02/the-disappearing-package?ref=protein.xyz), and it’s refreshing to see brands considering packaging as a multifunctional, transformable, eco-friendly component of product design.

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