Inhalable Chocolate Paves the Way for a Safer TB Vaccine
In 2007, David Edwards, a biomedical engineer at Harvard University, gave his students a project: Develop a way to inhale food, rather than chewing and swallowing it. “They took a whiff of everything from pepper to carrots and coughed a lot,” Edwards says. Last fall, he introduced Le Whif, a lipstick-size inhaler that drops a delicious, one-calorie chocolate taste on your tongue. Taste Sensation: A three-pack of chocolate Le Whif inhalers costs $9. Future flavors could include coffee and lobster. Inhaler: Courtesy Le Whif; Lobster: iStockEach Le Whif is filled with a few hundred milligrams of cocoa particles engineered small enough to be moved by your breath yet too big to make it to the lungs. As you breathe in, the powder travels through a mouthpiece that directs the cocoa to your tongue instead of the back of your throat. Edwards also plans to powderize lobster shells and other foods so...