Can Upcycled Foods Make a Meaningful Impact on Food Waste?
February 23, 2021
Companies like Toast Ale, Barnana, White Moustache and Sir Kensington’s have made headlines for rescuing foods like bread, bananas, whey and aquafaba that would have otherwise gone to the landfill and using them as ingredients in foods like yogurt pops, mayonnaise, snack crisps and beer.
The so-called “upcycled foods” are part of an effort to reduce some of the estimated 125 to 160 billion pounds of food waste generated in the United States each year. Upcycled foods can be found in 9,000 supermarkets in 10 countries and research shows that the upcycled foods market is worth $46.7 billion (and climbing)
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