Edible Coffee Cup, Cupffee Cup, Wafer Cup You Can Eat with Your Coffee, Tea, Espresso and Any hot or Cold Beverage. Eco Friendly, Good for Vegans, Coffee Gifts, Desserts, Yogurt Parfait, etc.

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Simply put, they just don’t have the manpower to provide the millions of cups needed to suit Air New Zealand’s demand. The idea behind the Cupffee edible coffee cup comes from Miroslav Zapryanov, company founder and CEO at Cupffee. As a student, Zapryanov began considering the environmental ramifications of plastic waste and disposable coffee cups and spent years developing the recipe in his own kitchen. Today, with a specialized machine and production process in place, this idea has materialized into a company capable of producing up to 2.5 million cups per day. The cups are manufactured in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. There isn’t a guidebook on how to make an edible cup, so it was a big challenge,” says Hutchins. During the testing phase, “we had lots and lots of leaking cups”. Cupffee is selling its B2B offering to companies across the EU, Middle East, Australia and the US, and has collaborated with coffee major Lavazza.

Ultimately, companies and coffee chains are likely just worried about whether consumers would ever actually catch on to the idea of a biscuit cup. While the idea of edible coffee cups stems from classics such as the ice cream cone, some companies have taken a more futuristic approach. This includes spherified alginate liquid comestibles such as those offered by hi-tech startup Ooho Water. This means the initiative still requires people to throw things in the correct bin, something we already know they have plenty of trouble with. Cup RentalsDisposable single-use coffee cups are bad news for the environment. Predominantly made from two materials – a paper layer and a polyethylene layer for water and heat resistance –which are difficult to separate, disposable coffee cups are considered unrecyclable. However… it just isn’t quite catching on, and for whatever reason, people don’t want to lug a coffee flask around in their bags. After hundreds of hours in the kitchen refining their concept, the duo took it to market. Their start-up, Good- Edi, now offers an edible, biodegradable, plastic-free alternative to the standard polyethylene-lined paper cups used for coffee that largely end up in landfills or get incinerated.

The main goal of the EIC grant is to further the technological innovations and business improvements at Cupffee, to propel the company towards ‘gobal leadership’ in the production and sales of edible cups and stirrers. One particular product which has been immediately integrated into our everyday life is the edible coffee cup. Many startup companies are developing such products, including Scottish startup Biobite, Bulgarian based Cupffee, Ukrainian company Lekorna and Moldova-based Wayris. These edible coffee cups typically comprise a wafer or biscuit based cup which has been developed to prevent the immediate absorption of the liquid they contain. Depending on the brand selected, the edible cups reportedly stay crispy for between 20 and 60 minutes and can remain leakproof for up to 12 hours. The demand for CBD-based products has been growing in recent years as a result of a change in consumer perception (cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive compound found in the flower of the cannabis plant). This compound has now become associated with numerous health benefits including treating medical aliments, such as Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, pain, stress and anxiety. This shift in consumer perception of CBD-based products is due, at least in part, to the increasing amounts of medical research on the effects of CBD and the rising publicity of the health benefits associated with the compound. Hutchins says that while some people would prefer the cup to be sweeter, it depends on the palate of each individual. “We deliberately didn’t make it sweet because we didn’t want to impact the flavour of the coffee,” says Hutchins. Good-Edi also offers a cup coated in chocolate, and plans to soon roll out more options with a wider variety of flavours.An app on your phone reminds you if you’ve forgotten to return a cup, and if you fail to do so you are charged, in a similar vein to city bike rental services. Traditional examples include sausage casings, banana leaf plates, and nature’s favourites, such as orange and banana peels. Known as Scoff-ee cups, the mug was crafted with wafer biscuits, lined with heat-resistant white chocolate, and a sugar paper wrapping displaying the KFC logo and colors.