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Could an artificial “nose”—one much more sensitive than our human snouts—help prevent food waste? An interdisciplinary team behindthe team—wearing matching T-shirts emblazoned with its logo ‘’NourishNet”—explained its idea to the National Science Foundation, as part of NSF’s “During the pitch, the team introduced its device called “QuantumNose,” which was created by engineering professor Cheng Gong and previously won the university’s “Invention of the Year” in 2022.
The NourishNet team, including engineering professor Cheng Gong and environmental science professor Stephanie Lansing . Photograph courtesy of the University of Maryland. “We talked to different grocery stores, and they would like to donate—that would be their preference—but they’re often just unclear and unsure and so a lot of it just gets thrown out,” says Lansing. “So the idea is to provide the data to manage those resources better, so that we can increase our donation rate and reduce the amount that’s being thrown out and not being utilized properly.”.
“Often they’re just kind of given what’s there , so the idea is to really give consumers a voice where they themselves can say, ‘Hey, I would like tomatoes. Where are tomatoes?’ And then the app allows them to navigate that,” says Lansing, who hopes it could eventually be deployed on a national scale.
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