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>>It's a crime against humanity how much food is thrown away How much of it is actually thrown away though? It's my understanding that the "ugly" looking veget
by gambiting 3y ago
>>It's a crime against humanity how much food is thrown away
How much of it is actually thrown away though? It's my understanding that the "ugly" looking vegetables are just used to make sauces, canned produce, ready meals etc etc. No one is throwing out perfectly good tomatoes just because they are ugly - they just get turned into something else.
- Kluggy 3y agoOr made into chips https://www.ugliessnacks.com https://www.ugliessnacks.com
- soco 3y agoIf they are redirected at the producer, for sure. But if they are labeled as ugly, or expired, only when they are on the shelves, I'm not that sure anymore. So I don't know how much is each share - recycled vs thrown away... and again, what does "thrown away" mean? Vegetables landing in compost are thrown away?
- gambiting 3y agoProduce almost never gets sent to shops "as is" straight from the field - everything gets sorted into classes, 1st class, 2nd class, 3rd class etc......1st class should already be perfect and nice and even - that's usually what supermarkets buy. There might be an occassional "ugly" bunch of stuff that falls through, and I guess yes in that case it will probably be thrown out. And yes it's also a tragedy that a lot of food at supermarkets gets thrown out when unsold. But I'd bet that 99% of "ugly" produce never makes it to the shelves in the first place, it just gets turned into processed food.