Sep 28, 2022
Upcycled food is the easy way for anyone to prevent food waste via the products they buy. Upcycled products prevent food waste by creating new, high quality products out of surplus food. It’s an innovative approach to food waste because it is the first consumer product-based solution, making it highly scalable and...
Sep 21, 2022
Why would we buy a packaged bag of apples when they are easy to slice, or could even be eaten whole? Easy. In our country, 40% of fresh produce is wasted, and a large portion of this percentage happens in our homes. Produce is purchased with the best intentions and then life gets in the way. Crunch Pak’s efforts are...
Sep 14, 2022
In 2014, Burnell Cotlon spent his life savings to open the only fresh grocery store in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. When the pandemic put many in his community out of work, he began allowing customers to take groceries on credit. Within a month, he’d opened tabs for more than 60 customers who could no longer...
Sep 7, 2022
September is National Fruit and Veggie Month and luckily for the produce industry, Wendy Reinhardt Kapsak, President and CEO of Produce for a Better Health Foundation decided to shift her focus of study in college from medicine to maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Find out how she is taking produce consumption data and...