{"id":375,"date":"2024-06-27T06:09:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T06:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uglyfruitsnot.eduproject.eu\/?p=375"},"modified":"2024-06-27T06:09:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T06:09:06","slug":"how-ugly-fruit-and-vegetables-could-tackle-food-waste-and-solve-supermarket-supply-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uglyfruitsnot.eduproject.eu\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/how-ugly-fruit-and-vegetables-could-tackle-food-waste-and-solve-supermarket-supply-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018ugly\u2019 fruit and vegetables could tackle food waste and solve supermarket supply\u00a0shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The world is facing a significant food waste problem, with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/3\/i4068e\/i4068e.pdf\">up to half of all fruit and vegetables<\/a>&nbsp;lost somewhere along the agricultural food chain. Globally, around&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/3\/ca6030en\/ca6030en.pdf\">14% of food produced<\/a>&nbsp;is lost after harvesting but before it reaches shops and supermarkets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside food prices (66%), food waste is a concern for 60% of people that participated in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.food.gov.uk\/research\/food-and-you-2\/food-and-you-2-wave-5\">recent survey<\/a>\u00a0published by the UK Food Standards Agency.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201617\/cmselect\/cmenvfru\/429\/429.pdf\">Other research<\/a>\u00a0suggests that as much as 25% of apples, 20% of onions and 13% of potatoes grown in the UK are destroyed because they don\u2019t look right. This means that producers\u2019 efforts to meet stringent specifications from buyers can lead to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201617\/cmselect\/cmenvfru\/429\/429.pdf\">perfectly edible produce being discarded<\/a>\u00a0before it even leaves the farm \u2013 simply because of how it looks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read the full article here:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-ugly-fruit-and-vegetables-could-tackle-food-waste-and-solve-supermarket-supply-shortages-201216\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-ugly-fruit-and-vegetables-could-tackle-food-waste-and-solve-supermarket-supply-shortages-201216<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is facing a significant food waste problem, with&nbsp;up to half of all fruit and vegetables&nbsp;lost somewhere along the agricultural food chain. Globally, around&nbsp;14% of food produced&nbsp;is lost after harvesting but before it reaches shops and supermarkets. Alongside food &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uglyfruitsnot.eduproject.eu\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/how-ugly-fruit-and-vegetables-could-tackle-food-waste-and-solve-supermarket-supply-shortages\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uglyfruitsnot.eduproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uglyfruitsnot.eduproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uglyfruitsnot.eduproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uglyfruitsnot.eduproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uglyfruitsnot.eduproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uglyfruitsnot.eduproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/uglyfruitsnot.eduproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uglyfruitsnot.eduproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uglyfruitsnot.eduproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uglyfruitsnot.eduproject.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}