{"id":147352,"date":"2022-10-01T15:24:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/researchers-have-produced-vegetables-from-human-hair"},"modified":"2022-10-01T15:24:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:24:29","slug":"researchers-have-produced-vegetables-from-human-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/researchers-have-produced-vegetables-from-human-hair","title":{"rendered":"Researchers have produced vegetables from human hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-have-produced-vegetables-from-human-hair2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The keratin-based substrate is biodegradable, eco-friendly, sustainable, and could revolutionize urban farming.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at NTU grew crops from discarded clumps of hair. Hair served as the growth medium instead of soil.<\/p>\n<p>The research is crucial to a more sustainable form of urban farming.<\/p>\n<p>In a lab at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, scientists have been growing crops \u2014 leafy vegetables, micro greens, rocket leaves, and the Chinese cabbage bok choy \u2014 using discarded hair collected from salon floors.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NTU<\/p>\n<p>Doesn\u2019t sound too appetizing, does it?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/researchers-have-produced-vegetables-from-human-hair\">Continue reading \u201cResearchers have produced vegetables from human hair\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The keratin-based substrate is biodegradable, eco-friendly, sustainable, and could revolutionize urban farming. Scientists at NTU grew crops from discarded clumps of hair. Hair served as the growth medium instead of soil. The research is crucial to a more sustainable form of urban farming. In a lab at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, scientists have been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}