Edible electrical systems containing food and/or food-based materials that possess electrical characteristics comparable or substantially equal to those of conventional materials used traditional electronic circuits and configured to include at least one of a capacitor, resistor, inductor, microphone, RF filter, pH monitoring device to collect information representing a living biological tissue from inside a body. A set of materials for use in constructing such edible electrical systems and methods of using such systems for acquiring such information. Edible electrical systems may be configured to be implantable.
