Ugly Fruit?
I’m not sure whether to rejoice or scream!
The National Geographic reports that the EU’s farm chief has suggested allowing misshapen fruit and veg into the supermarkets in order to help with the food crisis.
When I was a kid, I remember noticing that the misshapen fruits and veggies were usually the sweetest and tastiest. Somewhere along the way supermarkets decided that only those that fitted the packaging were ‘perfect’ and we lost out on the fun of ‘eating the knobbly bits first!’
So I rejoice in the fact that the issue has been raised. But I scream because of the question it raises: If allowing misshapes into the supermarkets is going to help with the food crisis and keep costs down, what has been happening to the misshapen fruit and veg all these years? I’d kind of assumed that is was all going into some other process like soup or tins. But this item seems to suggest that we have been discarding it.
Does anyone have the answer to this?