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Is ugly fruit/veg a significant cause of food waste? My understanding was that ugly fruit/veg gets turned into soup or sauces.

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Yeah there was definitely an article on HN some time ago explaining how the "imperfect" produce movement achieves exactly nothing - ugly fruits and veggies are used for other things, so to actually bring those to the stores you're not taking them from a supply going to waste - you're taking it from a supply that would be fully utilized anyway.

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I remember it was a Twitter rant

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18954018

You can do that but most home cooks don't make soups or sauces from scratch and don't know how.

Home cooks may not, but industry does.

The subject is wasted food at home.

The subject of this thread is ugly fruit and vegetables. They don't make it into the grocery store, let alone all the way to ones home (in fresh form).

Which has nothing to do with my comment to the poster.

I think the issue there is ugly produce that makes it to the supermarket. After some period of not selling, the supermarket needs to dispose of it.

Soups are how I prevent food from wasting.

Usually I use a store-bought broth or soup mix, but the other 3/4 is stuff that may soon go bad, but will survive another extra week after a good boil.

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