It would be cool to see something similar in supermarkets, since the waste of tons of food is atrocious on its own merits, and reducing that waste while introducing a cheaper alternative might make produce more affordable all around.
It would be cool to see something similar in supermarkets, since the waste of tons of food is atrocious on its own merits, and reducing that waste while introducing a cheaper alternative might make produce more affordable all around.
Here's a BBC Radio Four programme that talks about Ugly Fruits and two other "food waste" initiatives. (Zimbabwean orphans growing mushrooms in food waste - raising their status from social outcasts to useful members of society with produce to trade; and John Greany Sørensen who vacuum dries pulps to make crystals from food.)
All you need to do is ensure that people are aware that the edibility is the same (which, if sold by reputable supermarkets, will be taken as a given) and give them accurate guides on discerning the ripeness of such produce (assuming that our usual standards of ripeness are based on color, or other traits that rejects might not fulfill).
There's a fortune to be made here. Market it to broke post-college grads, counterculture hipsters, and earth-loving hippies. Hint hint, entrepreneurs.