雅思阅读真题（Part 2）
食品包装的未来：可食用包装与不粘包装
本篇也叫：食品包装的未来、可食用包装、不粘包装、食品包装新技术、肯德基可食用咖啡杯、LiquiGlide不粘瓶
Part 2 · 考频：高频 · 最近考试：2026.1.21广州轻工职业大学
本篇为雅思阅读真题（Part 2）《The future of food packaging》，共 13 题，2026.1.21广州轻工职业大学雅思考试真题回忆，页面提供完整原文、题目、答案与解析，并支持在线机考模式免费练习。本页同时提供 Markdown 版本 供 AI 助手与搜索引擎直接读取。
文章讨论食品包装的未来趋势，包括可食用包装和不粘包装。肯德基试验可食用咖啡杯，Stonyfield Organic推出可食用包装的冻酸奶珍珠，Loliware销售可食用饮水杯和纸杯蛋糕包装纸，日本Botan米果的透明包装纸经久不衰。LiquiGlide公司开发永久湿滑表面，减少瓶内酱料残留。
A
Food companies spend a lot of time thinking about packaging as a way to represent their brand and make consumers love their products. More than cosmetic details like labels or logos, a mod's container can suggest playfulness, environmental consciousness, or high technology. Packging provides consumers' first and last impressions of a product.
B
Fortunately for consumers, advances in food packaging technology promise to make food storage and preparation simpler. Consumers are growing ever more obsessed with sleek technology, reducing food waste, and minimizing health risks to themselves and the environment, and in response, food packaging is undergoing some interesting developments. Food-packaging designers are hard at work to make groceries environmentally friendly, compact, and functional.
C
Edible packaging has been proposed as one solution to consumers' environmental concerns because it leaves no waste. The fried chicken chain KFC, for example, is experimenting with an edible coffee-cup. Made from a hard cookie lined with heat-resistant white chocolate, the cup is KFC's attempt to reduce its landfill waste and satisfy customers whe are concented that businesses produce products that support food-system sustainability and innovation. Another company, Stonyfield Organic, introduced frozen yogurt 'pearls' using edible food wrappers. The skin has no flavor and can be rinsed and eaten with the yogurt (much like a grape), eliminating the need for plastic spoons or wrappers for those on the go. It seems that people still want a layer of sanitary protection, though, because the soheri ial yogurts are still sold in containers.
Similarly, a company called Loliware has sold getatin-based edible drinking cups for two years, in flavors like Madagascar vanilla and tart cherry. And last year, the company introduced edible cupcake wrappers made from potato starch. Even with these new advances, one decade-old edible invention continues to see great success - the clear paper used to wrap Japanese Botan Rice Candy.
D
Another development has been nonstick packaging, which can eliminate the 3 to 15 percent of sauces left inside traditional bottles, like those last trails of ketchup and mayonnaise that won't come out no matter how hard you shake or squeeze. Liquiglide - which refers to both a company and the product it makes - is a permanently wet slippery surface that allows viscous matter to slide off easily. Liquiglide estimates that its coating could prevent 1 million tons of food waste each year. The coating is made from components approved by the US government, and, according to the company does not affect the taste or smell of food. Another benefit of Liquiglide is that it prevents crabebated beverages from going flat.
E
New safety-enhancing packaging is now addressing the issue of food spoilage. It might seem this was solved long ago with the advent of the 'Seli-e-waste stam., which was meant to warn customers of when the food would no longer be considered suitable for consumption. But after a Harvard report revealed that sell-by dates are often inaccurate because of variances in transportation and grocery store policies, and that they also contribute to America's food-waste problem, the stamps have lost credibility in the food industry. In response, scientists are working on food packaging - like plastic wrap - that is 'active and intelligent' with tiny embedded sensors to first detect and later prevent food from spoiling. This advancement in food packaging draws upon nanotechnology, which is dedicated to making electronic sensors tiny and inexpensive. Of course, one could also rely on what has saved humankind from food poisoning for millennia - the senses. If it smells bad, throw it away.
F
Another emerging technology is packaging that disappears. MonoSol, LLC creates food-grade water-soluble bags for pre-portioned oatmeal or rice. When boiled, the bag dissolves, leaving only the food, ready to eat. MonoSol, LLC is marketing this to professional kitchens as well as consumers, as a way to pre-measure meal ingredients and ensure consistency regardless of who is cooking. Tomorrow Machine, a Swedish design firm, has plans for three disappearing packages: an oil bottle made from hardened sugar that cracks open like an egg; a fruit juice container made from seaweed that 'will wither at the same rate as its content'; and a peelable beeswax package for rice or other dry goods.
G
Super-compressed packaging serves the increasing number of city dwellers who generally have tiny kitchens and no storage room. Additionally, many people living in urban areas walk home from grocery stores, and they need lighter and smaller packages. Tomorrow Machine is also working on a compressed tiny package that expands into a full-size bowl when hot water is added.
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答案：using packaging to communicate ideas and attract customers
原文定位：Food companies spend a lot of time thinking about packaging as a way to represent their brand and make consumers love their products. More than cosmetic details like labels or logos, a mod's container can suggest playfulness, environmental consciousness, or high technology. Packaging provides consumers' first and last impressions of a product
答案：the many reasons for changes in packing
原文定位：Consumers are growing ever more obsessed with sleek technology, reducing food waste, and minimizing health risks to themselves and the environment, and in response, food packaging is undergoing some interesting developments
答案：packaging that can be consumed with its contents
答案：packaging that allows consumers use more the product
原文定位：nonstick packaging, which can eliminate the 3 to 15 percent of sauces left inside traditional bottles, like those last trails of ketchup and mayonnaise that won't come out no matter how hard you shake or squeeze... Liquiglide... allows viscous matter to slide off easily. Liquiglide estimates that its coating could prevent 1 million tons of food waste each year
答案：packing that indicates when food is beginning to go rotten
原文定位：scientists are working on food packaging - like plastic wrap - that is 'active and intelligent' with tiny embedded sensors to first detect and later prevent food from spoiling
答案：packing that vanishes or decomposes quickly
答案：packaging that doesn`t take up a lot of space
原文定位：Super-compressed packaging serves the increasing number of city dwellers who generally have tiny kitchens and no storage room. Additionally, many people living in urban areas walk home from grocery stores, and they need lighter and smaller packages
答案：E a sweet container for hot drinks
原文定位：The fried chicken chain KFC, for example, is experimenting with an edible coffee-cup. Made from a hard cookie lined with heat-resistant white chocolate
答案：D packaging made from a vegetable product
原文定位：And last year, the company introduced edible cupcake wrappers made from potato starch
答案：A a container that gets bigger under certain conditions
原文定位：Tomorrow Machine is also working on a compressed tiny package that expands into a full-size bowl when hot water is added
答案：paper
原文定位：Even with these new advances, one decade-old edible invention continues to see great success - the clear paper used to wrap Japanese Botan Rice Candy
答案：sauces
原文定位：nonstick packaging, which can eliminate the 3 to 15 percent of sauces left inside traditional bottles, like those last trails of ketchup and mayonnaise that won't come out no matter how hard you shake or squeeze
答案：sugar
原文定位：Tomorrow Machine, a Swedish design firm, has plans for three disappearing packages: an oil bottle made from hardened sugar that cracks open like an egg