25 Food Waste Reduction Innovations

These food waste reduction innovations include food waste cookies and freshness-indicating produce stickers.

Standouts include Toronto's ImPerfect Fresh Eats eatery, a business that creates all of its menu items using imperfect produce. While ugly produce has often been discarded simply due to its appearance, a growing number of eco-conscious food brands are choosing to make use of these food products. In addition to food waste restaurant menus, grocers are also launching imperfect produce deliveries while craft breweries are using discarded ingredients like citrus peels, stale bread and more to create signature beer flavors.

Other food waste reduction innovations include Stixfresh's freshness-improving fruit stickers. The labels aim to reduce food waste by creating a food-preserving barrier over produce. This barrier makes food 50% fresher and speaks to rising stats of discarded fruit and vegetables within the United States annually.