Things That Need Inventing -- Edible Fruit Marking System

Last night, I went to get a pear for my evening snack. I was enjoying it immensely until I realized that I was eating the annoying little sticker that one sees now on fruit. The episode derailed all of the enjoyment for me of eating the pear.

I thought that there has to be a better way. I thought of all sorts of other ways to mark fruit. I thought of laser etching, but it is too expensive and time consuming. I thought of edible rice paper stickers, but it might not be water proof. Then inspiration struck me. When meat is inspected, it is stamped with an ink made from the skins of red grapes.

Why not have a stamp for fruit with edible ink. It would be environmentally friendly, you could eat it, and it would eliminate all those annoying little stickers.

The other enhancement that I thought of was that the little stickers cannot be scanned at the supermarket checkout. With my system, the stamp could be a barcode that can be scanned as pictured below.

On top of all of that, you could dope the ink with vitamins or caffeine such that people would want to eat it. This is definitely something that needs inventing. I will race you to the patent office on this one.

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