Beijing based designer Li Jianye clearly remembered the nutritional lessons learned at school. For balanced meals, the proportion of meat to vegetables to carbohydrates for energy form a nutritional pyramid. This lunch box design reminds the user of the relative proportions of food by the labeled partitions in the tray.
The meat portion occupies the least space at the tip of the pyramid, followed by vegetables and then the stodgy parts of diet like pasta, potatoes and rice. This is still a concept design, one that merits moving to production especially when so many people in affluent countries overeat and don’t eat the right things.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Pre-segmented Meal Portions
- Opportunity for disruptive innovation in portion control and promoting balanced diets.
- Nutrition Pyramid Lunch Box
- Potential for innovation in designing lunch boxes that visually depict the proportions of different food groups.
- Labelled Partitions in Tray
- Opportunity to create innovative food containers that help users understand and maintain nutritional balance.
Where This Applies
- Food and Beverage
- Opportunity for businesses to develop portion control products and nutrition-based packaging solutions.
- Health and Wellness
- Potential for companies to create innovative tools and resources to promote healthy eating habits.
- Product Design
- Opportunity for designers to create visually appealing and functional food containers that support nutritional education.
