People are eating biodegradable packing peanuts under the assumption that they are edible — much to experts’ dismay. “Did anyone know that Lush packing peanuts are edible??” wrote one ...

The sandwich — if you can call it that — is packed with peanut butter and raspberry jam, but instead of bread, the filling oozes between two slices of wet, fused-together packing peanuts.

The peanuts are made of vegetable starch and have a texture similar to cheese puffs. (!!!) Apparently, Lush originally used popcorn as a packing material because it was compostable and cost-effective.

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But these are not the popular legume that Carver fashioned into foods, dyes and cosmetics—they are packing peanuts. A team of chemical engineers at Purdue University has now developed a ...

and "is often soiled," according to the DEC. The statewide ban applies to all expanded polystyrene foam used as "loose fill" -- so-called packing peanuts -- and containers used in food service ...