Huh, you can print lettuce now?

Imagine coming home after a long day at work, only to discover that you have no food in the house. No problem with your latest acquisition: the lettuce printer. Before you know it, you’re enjoying a delicious salad.

Well, that’s not really how it works, but in Leuven, scientists have succeeded in printing lettuce for the first time. Not in the form of lettuce leaves, but as green gummy bears. Huh? The pectin and living cells from the lettuce are isolated and later printed in various shapes, AD reports. Lettuce in the form of sweets—vitamins have never been this tasty.

We think we’d still rather chew on a crisp lettuce leaf with a good vinaigrette than on a lettuce sweet, but according to ByFlow—the maker of the green bears—the sweets are very useful for elderly people with swallowing difficulties. This way, they still get their vitamins. Anything is better than puréed food!