Fruit/vegetable "glue"

[KennethT]

I'm looking to bond two pieces of fruit or vegetables together for a cold application - is there anything out there that can do this type of thing? I was thinking there might be something like a veggie equivalent to transglutaminase (not necessarily enzyme based) - something that you could spread on one slice of fruit/veg and then apply another slice and they would bond together...

I might be able to make a strong enough gel out of agar or gelatin, but don't know if it would have the strength to hold things stuck together, plus, I don't know if it would taste weird...

Thanks for the ideas!

[Tri2Cook]

Check out this article from the folks at Ideas in Food. It discusses how they approached the idea from start to... well, I won't say "to finish" because they don't really finish. They're constantly evolving their ideas.

Edited April 30, 2010 by Tri2Cook (log)

[KennethT]

Very interesting... I had thought of pectin, but I've never used it before and don't know much about it... also, I got to this link which is also interesting