food supply Blockchain technology.

[Hatchy]

most times, I wonder how these food produce are been made to last for a very long period of time. As at early 19th century, perishable food items could not be preserved for a lengthy period of time. now, we can see new ideas and innovation coming up. These food items can now be stored for longer period of time using preservatives or consumable chemicals tested and approved by the government for food preservations.

  but how sure are we that these chemicals don't have negative effects on our body. we have heard about deaths in some countries caused by food consumption and this is really awful, leaving fear in the minds of other consumers.  
    In the United States, only 24%of it's citizens have confidence in the USA food supply. my question now is what happened to the remaining 76%of it's citizens. why are they not consuming these food produce?

    In order to resolves these challenges, new innovative company like the UNISOT, has been set to address this problems using Blockchain technology to increase transparency and enable consumers track food products from the point of production, to the point of sale.

The question here is, will this new Blockchain technology be able to solve this problem?
will it return the trust of the remaining 76% of the USA citizens who lost interest in consuming their own country's produce.
would this Blockchain prevent infected food from reaching the mouths of unwitting humans in the future?
what do you think about food preservation is it fine by you, knowing fully well that these preservatives can be dangerous to health?


 here is a source for this topic, you can as well read more on this from this link:How blockchain technology can help solve the $40B food fraud problem

[Cryptomiles1]

Those preservative chemical are harmful to man's health despite it satisfaction and certification in all test, yet that was why there is an expiry date to every canned food or chemically preserved food for man's consumption. If you could draw back then there were no much development or technology that could proffer a solution for preserving food, there were other local preservatives that works fine without harming us and at then the life span of man were about 90 to 150 years but in the current century and age, people barely live for about 69 to 90 years due to the development, forms of food consumption, climatic and environmental factors which includes air pollution, land pollution, water pollution have drastically endanger the life of a man. These are the major factors that influences the life and living of a man in the world. Well lemme just stop here I don't want to deviate from this topic otherwise I would have loved to go more deeper.

[Husires]

All I see now is to put the word blockchain in a sentence and then think things will get better.

What can blockchain offer in food preservation? Blockchain is nothing but chains of blocks of data, which are difficult to modify after being broadcast, and there is no relationship between them and improving people's confidence because it can happen that there is a consensus between material manufacturers to cheat, and therefore the consensus is the correct one in the blockchain, not the correct data. .

It can be said that encouraging organic farming, consuming canned foods in a short period of time, and emphasizing industrial additives provides better confidence.

[firesurfer]

Blockchain has been applied to the management of food production and distribution systems. Most recently in 2021 Cardano applied its Blockchain to agricultural production in an African country aka WABI- a blockchain from China that manages food using QR codes.
Dimitra is a data driven farming project “Every smallholder farmer, regardless of economic status, can benefit from technology that is simple, beautiful and useful as farmers grow economically. "
Projects are gradually being built for flexible and practical application in agriculture.

[SamReomo]

I don't think that blockchain or any other technology can fix the issue of the preservatives that are being used in every food items these days. In this day and time things are different from 19th centaury. The population of the world has seen huge growth during past decades, and with that the demand and supply of food was needed to combat that problem. The only solution in that situation was to use preservatives to enhance the usability of the food items.

But, these days the food producing farms, and the processing companies are using harmful chemicals to enhance the life span of the food items in the worse ways possible for monetary gains. In such cases how could a teach like blockchain help to solve the problem? And, if it even plays its role in fixing the problem then how will low teach people take benefit from it? I believe that without proper infrastructure and strict regulations the problem can not be solved.

These problems can only be solved by governments and high authority organizations. But, unfortunately none of them will take any action against such preservatives as they are aware of the consequences that will happen after the restrictions. That's why I believe that only new startups that are well aware of the benefits of organic food can help in such scenarios. Their beliefs regarding high quality organic food that isn't processed by any chemicals is a must thing, and the food should be transported through a medium which would make it to reach the consumers as soon as possible.

In that case the problem can be tackled very well and the fear regarding the harmful chemicals won't exist in the minds of the consumers. Now if blockchain is incorporated by such startups than that would really make some positive changes in the food delivery system. But, the need for blockchain in such systems isn't necessary however you can consider it as a good feature.

[karmamiu]

Regaining trusts from their people is a hard battle they need to face and no one is willing to risk their own wealth and resource just to convince people to believe them without any monetary gain. I don't think blockchain can help in this case when we are talking about real time products and not just any other products you can easily manage as long as you have internet. Besides that, even as we are now facing global economic crisis, nobody would even want to risk losing what they have in exchange of recognition or patriotism, and I don't think it is also the answer to this problem especially now that even crypto is facing problems in terms of not only adoption but also from the hands of high authorities.

[Gallar]

The question here is, will this new Blockchain technology be able to solve this problem?
will it return the trust of the remaining 76% of the USA citizens who lost interest in consuming their own country's produce.
would this Blockchain prevent infected food from reaching the mouths of unwitting humans in the future?
what do you think about food preservation is it fine by you, knowing fully well that these preservatives can be dangerous to health?

In my opinion, the problem lies not in the sales technique. Because all companies that are engaged in the food sector, including in America too, must have carried out maximum sales promotions. But the problem is the matter of the ingredients in these foods, namely chemicals or food preservatives as you wrote. Now everyone knows and is aware of the preservative content in certain foods, especially in foods that can be stored for a very long time or fast food. Even though these preservatives have been approved by the government in each country, it's no longer a secret, that chemicals that are put in fast food or put in as preservatives, will definitely cause side effects on the human body.

Even though the effect is not felt immediately, in a period of several years if consumed continuously you will definitely feel the effects of these chemicals.
And about the blockchain system, if it is applied to a food sales system, I think it might be fine. But maybe it just needs adjustments to its consumers.

[Lorence.xD]

Preserving of food is already a thing before even we don't the technology like the freezer that could freeze foods to avoid spoiled foods. If I remember correctly we have different methods I remember the pot thing where they put foods inside then buried them. Even when a long time passes by the foods are still fresh and new. But if you're concern about how blockchain could help people to be aware of their food they intake, I think most of the people are aware of expiration date and still people doesn't care about it. So in short even blockchain couldn't do about it as people already lost their trust.

[Latviand]

Salt is a preservative, too much of it can cause hypernatremia and too little of it if you consume a food without sodium will cause hyponatremia so the answer to your concern is pretty much just balanced. Some of the preservatives sure cause more harm even if there's only a little amount of it but there are guidelines for this stuff so it's nothing to worry about.

[stompix]

From the article:

Using solutions like those powered by UNISOT (using nChain technology), every step in the life cycle of a food product, from farm to plate, can be tracked and traced, creating hitherto unforeseen transparency and true accountability. Everything from the farm something is grown on, to the chain of custody along the supply chain, to the conditions in storage facilities and transport vehicles, can be tracked and traced, leaving an immutable record on the blockchain for all to see.

When consumers pick up an item in a supermarket or order something in a restaurant, they’re able to see all of this information just by scanning a Q.R. code. This allows customers to make more informed decisions, providing them with certainty that the food they’re about to consume has been produced in a way that’s compatible with their values and that it is what it claims to be. In short, selling wood chips as parmesan cheese will become impossible in a blockchain-powered world

Tracking the product will not erase all possibilities of fraud!
No tracking, no timestamp, no code, no blockchain will be able to deal with fraud in the food industry.

It might sound tempting when you think the farmer wills can each carrot, assign a code to it and you can check that on an app to be sure you've received that exact carrot, but nothing will stop the farmer from importing illegally 100 tons of carrots and labeling all of them as eco bio green ultra natural gluten free carrots!
Same for the meat industry, things get so complicated here because you simply have no way with a simple database to know if the said ingredients are indeed part of the mix that was used for your salami, this can only be done with a 24/7 monitoring of the entire facility with health inspectors at every step and thus, why the need for blockchain at all?

Oh and btw, and for everyone cheering for this solution, it uses Bitcoin SV blockchain, so, might have to think once or twice before clapping!

All I see now is to put the word blockchain in a sentence and then think things will get better.

But it works, right?
I just washed myself with a shampoo that uses blockchain technology and I need a lawnmower to shave!

[Negotiation]

Everything is being improved with blockchain technology in food supply, but the use of blockchain in food can go beyond ensuring food safety. It helps the market by balancing market prices. Traditional pricing systems for buying and selling rely on the judgment of the parties rather than the information provided by the entire value chain. Blockchain's unique decentralized structure ensures creating a marketplace for premium products with transparency things are getting complicated as time passes.

[Mr. Magkaisa]

    -   First of all, we know that the preservative does nothing good, and it is mixed with chemicals. It is often used in grocery supermarkets such as fruits, vegetables, fish, chicken, and others so that it does not rot immediately so it takes a long time to spoil.

Of course, when it is said that it is a preservative, since it contains a chemical, once it is introduced into our body, it will actually cause a chemical reaction in our body, not immediately because we have an immune defense mechanism that is called.

The only thing I don't understand is what is the relevance of blockchain here in the matter of preservative foods. Anyone?

[hugeblack]

Blockchain does not work for anything else in economic systems or that entire digital, but when the human element has entered, the blockchain cannot do much.
When we come to food supply chains, the Standardization Authority must verify all the data received and that the farms are committed to all necessary measures, and therefore, unless the sensors develop to be the perfect work without the need for human intervention, this process will not change.


Also, after the system is completely digital, the blockchain is somewhat slow.

In general, the effort must have the state and scrutiny to gain from the violations of these regimes and random and popular control.

[dansus021]

First of all are u trying to spread to other people about Unisot or just an example brand.

Blockchain can solve some of human problem but not all of it in my opinion for now we need people from inside the government to set a rule about it. but you will think like this "if we wait the government then we will wait forever" and yes it is true but this the closest problem solver for now

and I don't know how if blockchain can fix the current food system

[AmoreJaz]

Everything is being improved with blockchain technology in food supply, but the use of blockchain in food can go beyond ensuring food safety. It helps the market by balancing market prices. Traditional pricing systems for buying and selling rely on the judgment of the parties rather than the information provided by the entire value chain. Blockchain's unique decentralized structure ensures creating a marketplace for premium products with transparency things are getting complicated as time passes.

blockchain tech can also be used in the logistics and supply chain management in the food industry. we have seen several projects exploring this concept. however, the implementation is quite hard as i think the industry is not yet ready.
but if you will look into it. there are a lot of issues that blockchain can resolve in this industry. transparency and real-time visibility and tracking of goods and products are just few benefits. if implemented in most companies, they will lessen a lot of trouble encountered among different parties in the supply chain.

[bittraffic]

What can be done with that nChain blockchain is that no 3rd party scam/fraud can harm the end consumer but what can protect consumers from the company itself?

Are producers really truthful to what they are saying about the products ingredients and all when it comes to adding the data in the blockchain. Because these can be altered by the food producers.

[coupable]

At a current stage, the food chain is not qualified to adopt blockchain technology due to the complexities of the process stages that require the existence of a decentralized entity.
What I notice in general is that the blockchain is being pushed into many areas despite the small chance of success. This is the same thing we noticed during the wave of ICO campaigns, when the blockchain became popular in various sectors. I do not know if any of you remember bananacoin, where bitcoin was inserted into the production of bananas, and of course it turned out later that it was a failed project with no purpose other than to collect the money of unsuspecting investors.

[yhiaali3]

I am from the seventies and eighties, so I remember perfectly when I was young how food items (vegetables, fruits, canned food...) were different from what they are today in terms of taste and health.

Packaging or the use of preservatives was not widespread, so the materials were much healthier than they are now. Today, packaging and preservatives are not the only problem, but pollution has spread everywhere in the air, water and soil.

Blockchain can make things more transparent about food data and the extent of the harm it can cause to humans, but I don't expect it can stop this harm.

[bettercrypto]

At a current stage, the food chain is not qualified to adopt blockchain technology due to the complexities of the process stages that require the existence of a decentralized entity.

Yes, you are right there, because the blockchain technology only burns when Bitcoin is accepted as an options payment in a merchant such as supermarkets in a mall.

       And besides that, Blockchain doesn't go directly into food. Therefore, it is still a bit difficult to connect it to the food industry unless they can think of something good that will actually fit the blockchain.

[Husires]

thing will stop the farmer from importing illegally 100 tons of carrots and labeling all of them as eco bio green ultra natural gluten free carrots!
Same for the meat industry, things get so complicated here because you simply have no way with a simple database to know if the said ingredients are indeed part of the mix that was used for your salami, this can only be done with a 24/7 monitoring of the entire facility with health inspectors at every step and thus, why the need for blockchain at all?

This is not the only problem, but sometimes the use of the blockchain increases the complexity of the problem, such as making it slower, more expensive, with difficulties such as the inability to delete and modify or the high transparency that can harm the industry.

Improving the blockchain here will be closer to those who try to use gold in electrical connections, as it is expensive, and will not give a fundamental change to the average user who may not be able to afford the price of the final product.
An improvement in one aspect and neglecting the rest will lead to the uselessness of this improvement.