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Many fruits and vegetables have a waste component that nobody eats, but is necessary for the things to grow. Think banana/orange peels, carrot tops, or the veg
by pengaru 6y ago
Many fruits and vegetables have a waste component that nobody eats, but is necessary for the things to grow. Think banana/orange peels, carrot tops, or the vegetable placenta of a bell pepper. If you pay by unit weight for those things, and they're getting smaller, you're getting less of the edible component but still plenty of the wasted bits. You can think of it as relatively constant packaging overhead.
I can't say I've noticed any of my organic produce getting smaller though.
- svieira 6y agoBanana peels and bell pepper placenta compost, orange peels can be candied and zested, and carrot tops go into the pot for vegetable broth and _then_ are composted. There's a lot to reduce / reuse / reanimate [1] in your fresh produce's "packaging". [1]: https://logo.cafepress.com/5/1221917.6258105.jpg https://logo.cafepress.com/5/1221917.6258105.jpg (Order of the Stick)
- pengaru 6y agoWhich is all fine and dandy, but an entirely moot point - that's a constant consolation prize largely independent of the size. We're not talking about fresh produce vs. other packaged foods, it's fresh produce vs. shrunken fresh produce.