A great new way to reduce fruit waste

Around the world each year some 1.6 gigatonnes of food is wasted. This occurs from the farm to the fridge and 1.3 gigatonnes is still suitable for eating when it is dumped.This is one third of all the food produced.

If you work out how much this costs in terms of money, water, work and other consumables, it is a much bigger waste than just the food itself.

We have stop wasting food and we have to find ways of converting what is wasted into usable materials to reduce the massive amonts of resources which we are currently just throwing away each day.

CSIRO is busy working on this and has developed a new method to convert what is called bio-mass into usable materials which can then be re4used in the food supply.

It has been done using apples as the trial food, as two thirds of all the apples grown do not meet the supermarket requiremenst and are wasted.

Much of this is pulped after the fruit is used for juicing, which is still edible but looks very unappealing.

The new CSIRO process stops the pulp from degrading, so it keeps it’s flavour and nutrients. It is believed that the same process can be used on other fruits and vegetables, like; grapes, tomatoes and carrots.

The pulp can be converted into many usable forms, like powders, pellets or paste, which can then be used as ingredients in food products.