Early Access: Tastee Tape

Happy Monday and Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Welcome back to Early Access by Coeus Collective: the newsletter where we do the sourcing and you get the deal. 

Last week, we started the year with an eco-focus by featuring CarbonBridge, who has built the world’s thinnest bioreactor (allocation still open). Today, we’re staying the sustainability realm.

Except this time, the end-product is edible. Enter the world of Tastee Tape: where every “plastic” packaging that you encounter can actually be…eaten, and even Jimmy Fallon is an interested party. Let’s dive in.

Most people do not think twice about the film wrapped around their food. It is thin, clear, disposable, and everywhere. And that is precisely the problem.

Plastic food packaging has become the default not because it is ideal, but because it is easy. It seals well, it is cheap, and it fits existing waste systems. But the health and environmental costs that were historically treated as externalities (the microplastic crisis, for example) are now becoming impossible to ignore.

For food businesses, the challenge is unforgiving. Packaging has to preserve freshness, withstand heat and moisture, meet safety standards, and move seamlessly through production lines. Many alternatives promise sustainability, but fail on performance or price.

This is where Tastee Tape steps in.

Tastee Tape has developed a biodegradable adhesive food-wrapping film made from food safe, GRAS-certified ingredients that behaves like plastic where it matters. It can be transparent. It can be heat sealable. And most importantly, it can protect food without introducing harmful chemicals.

What makes this especially compelling is not just the material, but rather the restraint. Tastee Tape is not asking food operators to reinvent how they package products. It is designed to work inside the systems that already exist.

As regulations tighten and consumers demand safer materials, packaging that feels invisible in use but meaningful in impact will define the next shift. Tastee Tape is aiming to be that quiet replacement.