There is an excellent chance you will discover vegetables in your own refrigerator that could fall into the garbage in lieu of for your dinner plate.
Not that anyone visits the grocery store while using intention of later throwing the meal in the trash, but perform it more frequently than we probably realize. Ruth Litchfield, the Jane Armstrong Professor in Food Science and Human Nutrition at Iowa State University, says we waste about 20 pounds of food on a monthly basis. And that’s per person.
“It’s a massive problem,” Litchfield said. “When you’re thinking that 40 percent from the food created the U.S. stays in waste, that is definitely just irresponsible.”
Iowa State University experts have approaches for reducing waste.
See the total story via the ISU News Service.
