Advancements in Food Printing Technologies and Their Potential Culinary Applications: A Contemporary Exploration

Table 1

Advantages of various dimensional techniques.

Printing type	Advantage	Application	Reference
3D	Formation of complex 3D structures and personalized foods	Specifically formulated foods for warriors, athletes, and expectant mothers	[5]
4D	Rapid prototyping, lower material consumption, accessibility, cost-effectiveness, geometric complexity, and excellent design flexibility	Self-folding food packaging, macro-/microscale soft robots for different engineering applications	[10]
5D	Production of robust complex objects with less material	Jewellery to the automotive prototyping industry can be benefited	[14]
6D	The creation of the intelligent final object, or the ability for the thing to change its shape in response to an external stimulus	For the manufacturing of advanced on-demand products	[17]