Global food and beverage giant PepsiCo has been using the Foundry to explore some useful and novel solutions for barrier enhancement in their flexible packaging materials. Representatives from PepsiCo’s R&D division connected with Berkeley Lab scientists at a 2010 bio-energy conference, and after that forged ongoing relationships with both the ALS and the Molecular Foundry.
PepsiCo has been using ALS x-ray tomography beamline 8.3.2 to understand more about the chemical structure and behavior of their starch-based snack foods, with the goal of creating a whole new category of snacks.
