The coffee shop under the epidemic is blowing the "cookie cup" craze again!

Disposable tableware, whether cups, plates, knives, forks, chopsticks, etc., are the scourge of environmental protection. Among them, the biggest problem of paper cups is that a large number of trees need to be cut down as raw materials for manufacturing, but the life span of a paper cup is at most an hour to drink a drink, which is thrown away as soon as it is used, and the inner wall of the paper cup is coated with polyethylene, which is difficult to recycle.

According to incomplete statistics, more than 1 billion disposable cups worldwide become potential waste every year because they can not be recycled properly, most of which come from coffee shops.

But it is not easy for coffee shops to reduce the use of disposable cups, because most consumers go to coffee shops to take away coffee, and it is also very difficult for people to take environmental cups with them. How can coffee consumers avoid running around with green cups and reduce the use of disposable cups?

In 2014, an American coffee shop owner made edible coffee cups by smearing chocolate sauce on cones. But the disadvantage is that after the chocolate melts, the coffee will leak out, the coffee has only 10 minutes to enjoy, and every guest who uses an edible cup must eat chocolate. Therefore, after the sweet cone cup was invented, it has not been widely recognized.

Later, KFC launched a limited version of the edible cookie cup in 2015, which is much harder than the original version of the cone cup. The cup is also smeared with less, heat-resistant chocolate sauce, which is more suitable for the loading of coffee drinks.

Since KFC was also in the research stage at that time, it did not popularize cookie cups widely, but inspired food companies in many other countries, so since 2016, coffee shops in many places have begun to offer edible cookie cups.

Although some coffee shops are willing to use cookie cups for production, because the demand rate is not high, food companies do not carry out mass production, so the price of a cookie cup is hundreds of times that of disposable cups, and the price of the product has increased a lot. and the time to load drinks is only 30 minutes. Therefore, although the cookie cup has been popular for a round, it has not been widely used in the end.

At a time when everyone was about to forget the cookie cup, under the coincidence of the epidemic, they were valued again and upgraded. Compared with the second generation cookie cup, the third generation oat cup is made of oat bran and eggs, which is pressed and baked by special technology, and can achieve leak-proof effect without applying chocolate sauce.

The upgraded oatmeal cup can hold drinks at 85 degrees Celsius for 12 hours. The oatmeal cup itself is not very sweet, tastes like a muffin, and only oatmeal bran and eggs are used, so the cost of a cup is only 1 inch 4 of the cookie cup.

Some things just come early than happen! In addition to increased environmental awareness, the epidemic did not allow coffee shops to provide reusable glasses, which unexpectedly boosted demand for edible cups.

Coffee shops in many areas have returned to the use of edible cups and are very popular with consumers. Some stores said: although the price of the product will be higher, customers are more and more aware of the impact of their consumption on the environment, so the response is huge. And very positive! It is believed that edible cups will be widely used.

Although many countries have promoted the service of "renting recyclable cups", consumers often forget to bring their own cups and still rely on disposable cups when they go to coffee shops. Coffee workshops have previously reported that Starbucks has launched a "borrow cup" service in many regions, which can be refunded and rewarded as long as a $1 deposit is "borrowed" for a cup and replaced after use.

After the cup is recycled, it will be sterilized uniformly, but consumers say it is not environmentally friendly. If you want to waste water to ensure the cleanliness of the cup, you might as well re-provide eating mugs or reopen the service of bringing your own cup. So for more than a year since the launch of the borrowing cup service, the response has not been as good as the return of the Oatmeal Cup for months.

However, there is still bug in oat cups, but there is no lid, and many consumers are allergic to wheat bran and eggs, so food companies in many regions are also stepping up the development of gluten-free and egg-free versions of edible cups and lid parts, hoping to make edible cups widely used.

The head of an Australian food company said that although the cost of an edible cup is still US $1.50, as long as it is widely used by major coffee shops, the price of the edible cup can be reduced to less than US $1.

The code clerk remembers that it was once popular in China to use cookie cups for coffee, but in the end, it was not widely used because of chocolate and cost problems. Now there is a new production technology, domestic food factories quickly arrange!

If edible cups can be really popular, in fact, it is also very good! So you don't have to worry about getting hungry after drinking coffee, 😂.

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