My local grocery decided to offer 5$ boxes of random fruits and veggies that doesn't sell well. You get not only the unperfect tomatos or pears, but also the smaller brocoli nobody pick, the lonely banana people removed from a group, the overstock apples, etc. This is a true win-win and I hope more grocery would do the same.
or get sued if someone buys a fruir/veg with fungus that just looks like a bruse and gets severely sick. This is part of why we just throw them away instead of reselling. Obviously the market would try to increase their profit but for some markets, they can afford to not take the risk if reselling them.
Boxs You make a good point, but I think that buyers should also have to take some responsibility for eating food that is obviously bad for them if the food is being sold to them at a discount. I would like to know what the laws/rules are regarding this. Thanks for your comment.
Me and my friend were seeing who could fit the most watermelon in their mouth so we both took huGGeeeEEEEEEEEEeEEEEe bites of a rotten watermelon.... She almost threw up and we both had the taste in our mouths for the rest of the day
I'm sure that if they wouldn't cost as much as a "good looking" piece of fruit/vegetable, people won't mind buying them. Buying spotted fruit is like buying something that is close to the expiry date. Obviously you'll buy the one with the longest expiry date if you pay the same for both...
Plus, expiration dates are more like "peak quality dates" and they're more of guesses from the manufacturer. Most things are fine even after weeks past expiration, course won't taste as good.
I know some stores sell them. But here they talk about them not even coming in the stores. They get thrown away before being put in the store. But yes, if they are cheaper, then I'm sure lots of people buy them :) And expiration dates are just a peak quality date. I'm not saying you can't use it after, of course you can, but if you pay the same price, obviously you'll want the most recent product... I buy lots of items close to expiration date when they are in discount though.
we have a fruit problem in the united states of people being afraid to eat spotty fruit and we leave so much fruit behind fearing its unedible. If you ever watch videos of child hunger and they show dumps with just millions of crates filled with edible fruit that are being treated like trash because people are afraid to eat them or give them to our children. We don't have a food shortage problem in the United States, we have a food WASTE problem. Ever wonder why our grandparents save everything and we think it's weird? They come from a time where SAVING food was the thing to do because of growing up in a Great Depression lifestyle that we think it's weird. Shout out to the young people with old souls who still save food and feel guilty on throwing food away.
If you truly believed that then go vegan. Meat wastes way too much grains and water that could be used to help starving children that you so care so much about. Animals agriculture also contributes to the co2 pollution more then all the transportation combined. but back to the food thing, i can site all of this if you didnt know this allready if you reply asking. cheers
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I always go to the "day old" part of the produce section first. With careful picking, I can get perfectly good fruits and vegetables for a 1/3rd of the price, and many times, even cheaper. All because of "cosmetic" blemishes. Most people think the produce is spoiled. In over 25 years of doing this, I have never once gotten sick or even had an upset stomach.
Why pay the same price for an inferior product? The message of this video SHOULD be "ask for a discount and save the planet" not " be stupid and buy it for the same price, you can still use 90% of the product".
Why pay the same price for an inferior product? The message of this video SHOULD be "ask for a discount and save the planet" not " be stupid and buy it for the same price, you can still use 90% of the product".
@@breadcrumbs3530 some people in some countries consider hard green mangoes a delicacy but in America monstrous sized mangoes that are too hard and green get tossed into the dumpster or at least sentence to be the field outside of the pen. Back. But the people who work at these places without unions don't understand how the pleasure the zoo animals would take is being destroyed by mixing the vegetables with the fruits. Somebody needs to speak up for the zoo animals and get the grocery stores to not give up on the project but just try to keep the two items separate
A lot of the wasted food isn't damaged or sick at all. They just formed weird, but people don't want a weirdly shaped fruit or vegetable, so it gets thrown away.
I like buying weird looking peppers because they look funny. They taste fine. I grow strange looking ones too, though this year I managed to finally, after five years, grow a normal looking bell pepper.
They colab with freelance animators to animate their lessons. That's why every video is different. You can even suggest a speaker, educator or animator yourself!
+abrar kahn Haha. Well, first I like to carefully select an appropriate compliment. For educational videos, this is usually a reference to how informative or interesting the content was. Then I skillfully articulate a question in my head, pass it through a mental editor to make sure it is concise. After all of that It all comes together to make one amazing comment! Have a *great* day!
Hi, I'm the person who thought of the idea and wrote the script to make this video through TedED. In general, anyone can come up with an idea, approach TEDed, and if they approve, they get freelance animators and voice actors to make the video. There's also a small team of people who edit the script, fact check and work with the educator to make sure the animation is accurate. I can't speak to how the animations themselves are actually made, but I'd love to see their process too. Hope that helps and sorry so late!
When I was small (in the 1960s) grandma use to go to the farmer's market and buy a BUNCH of spotty tomatoes, then spend days cutting out the bad spots and canning them. They were great, of course, and the cost was nill.
I think a large part of the problem is the lack of flexibility for some of the retailers faced with fruit/veg affected by cosmetic blemishes or even partial spoilage. I would gladly buy these products if they were reduced in price accordingly, but most of the time they aren't.
true, but it's implications will make you want to. most of our world's water supply goes to agriculture, meaning much less for you and others to use(as well as a significant contribution to the horrible amounts of humidity some areas of the US in particular have been experiencing). using mushy fruit in bulk would also theoretically drive down the cost of them, as less is wasted.
Why can't we recycle the wasted food as fertiliser or something and since there's TONS of wasted food we wouldn't need to even produce much artificial fertiliser anymore
people,people...ted-ed is not telling you to buy rotten, mushy fruit over fresh, unblemished ones...who in their right mind would do that if both fruits cost the same? i think what ted-ed is trying to say...when you see a fruit or veggie with a few small spots or blemishes you don't throw the WHOLE FUCKING FRUIT away...just cut out the spotty parts then eat the rest of the fruit...that way you minimize the amount of still edible food being wasted... The rest of the fruit (minus the spotty and mushy parts) is still delicious and safe to consume...
I’ve worked with produce for nearly 5 years and this is good to know. I myself have eaten fruit with mushy spots and not only do they taste great, but they’re chewier too which I like
In the US, all produce is put in the same place and sold at the same price. Customers have no incentive to buy the mushy, blemished fruits, even if they are salvageable. Thus, the extras are thrown away. In many cases, waste produce is recycled into organic compost, which is another form of "salvage".
This is why they need a discount or bargain bin for produce. Maybe even a secondhand retailer to sell the food to folks who'll buy it and know how to use it. The problem is there is no middle ground between Grade-A supermarket fare and dumpster diving.
@@MUtley-rf8vg I found it in Los Angeles the churches glean to an extraordinary degree and one time there was a guy and one of those little tiny parks in front of the millionaire condo high-rises and another guy pushing a cart with Gourmet restaurant food. He asked us if we wanted something to eat and he was able to put together this plate that was like $100 restaurant meal some of the best food I've ever eaten in my life. The guy that was sitting on the bench with the energy drinks didn't want one but I don't regret saying yes. Just watching him work was worth the risk I took . He clearly had been trained in food preparation and have done high volume production at some point. Sometimes you would see items in the cart with nobody around that were like you know solid gold in value and then maybe you would take a portion and you hear shouting in the distance but it turns out the person isn't upset they want offer you even more. One Thanksgiving people are bringing their leftovers to give away and that's what I learned that the households that have professional chefs working in them you can taste the difference. One Baker brought a large quantity of organic fruit pies but those are not the same as the hot leftovers from Thanksgiving. we were just overwhelmed with a donations and I worked on the line volunteering to serve myself. It was so much wonderful food so much variety I think that for many people that night and was their best Thanksgiving. during the pandemic I think there is some Innovation occurring based upon what I've witnessed with churches doing the dumpster diving themselves for their congregation. for most of my life I have brought expired food to the attention of the grocery store in a kind of denial about what the consequence would be. On the other hand I just saw some condoms that were expired several years ago on the Shelf being Mark 75% off with the fresh ones with more than a year before the use by date on the same shelf also 75% off. There is a lack of awareness in ordinary times about those who are without sufficient fresh and we don't have to mean extremely fresh but we mean non-processed fruits and vegetables that's what the Press refers to. I think there's a lot of confusion about that. Because preserving something it's not the same as making it half spoiled. I would rather have something a week old that looks bad and I have to throw a portion away than something that is several years old and has no flavor that I would want but is the animal otherwise
I hate people who waste or even disrespect food. I work in a bakery and this co-worker often throw food items e.g. breads, buns, butter etc. at another person and I really hate him because of this behavior. One day I got so mad at him and slapped him with a pastry in my hand
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if they rnt at a discount (which they usually rnt if its a big market chain) then its a pretty defeatist thing to not pick the best possible produce u can get
Spots are actually where the cellular membranes have weakened (cells are mostly water, that causes mush). You can always cut around decomposed areas, and mulch them.
The animations are good, and I understand that they are part of the concept. But I would have really prefered, if you had just used pictures of fruit, so I didn't have to interpret what kind of spots the animation aimed for. I'm sure this would make your video more fruitful.
I personally always buy fruit without any spots on it. It’s good to know that it’s not always mosh or mold (already). When I was on vacation with my friends I experienced a unpleasant grocery shop. I saw some leetchi’s with a big discount on it, later i found out there was already mold on it so watch out what you’re buying on sale!
0:15 "in part of cosmetic problems and percieved spoilage..." , or to keep the market prices high. if more food is on the market the farmers get less money for their products, even that 30% more doesn´t make up for the price loss. this especially hits farmers in africa, which have a huge problem with sinking wheat prices. another example would be the milk overproduction in e.g. Germany, endangering the livelihood of many farmers.
my local grocery store sets out the rotten fruit or veggies for pig farmers to.pick it up so it's not a complete waste. my family would pick it up and feed it to our chickens. They loved it
GJ, I was working in Africa a few years ago, and a group of us were eating some peaches from the tree. The peaches had worms in them. I used my pocket knife to dig out the worms. As I was eating peaches, I noticed an African friend of mine eating peaches, but he was not digging out any worms. I asked him, "Hey what are doing about the worms?" He replied with an absolute straight face, "When I see a worm, I turn the peach and keep eating." I guess the story will not mean much to someone who was not there, but we all almost fell over laughing when he said that.
With what vegetables cost, I'm not accepting any that I have to cut bits off of. Also, soft tomatoes don't have a texture that I find pleasing. If you want to eat rotten vegetables, knock yourselves out but I'll stick to quality produce.
I make it a point to not skip our on the spotty food, and take any food I can get. Since I took a conservation class and learned how much food we waist that people work hard to give us, I try to use up the stick.
Bananas with spots are actually better for you. Under-ripe bananas can promote constipation. Freeze the bananas when they get too ripe to eat fresh. Then microwave briefly, cut in half, and squirt out the flesh to use on cereals or smoothies.
I usually cut off the part of the fruit or vegetable that's already mushy. I don't like the way the overripe parts taste. Still when food has a moldy part I don't eat the food anymore. And yes always remember to wash your food!
I'm not so sure about eating soft fruits like tomatoes that have spots like that but I know for a fact that harder ones like apples are fine. Hell thats half of why apple trees spread across the country. They keep so well that it made the perfect fruit to pack when folks were moving west leading to their seeds getting spread all over.
I think the biggest deal here is that at the price fruit & veggies are these days, you want all you can get for your money. Buying half a good apple for the price of 1 or maybe 80% of its value (incredibly rare discount) is just not nice. When you buy you want the full thing and for it to last more than a day before it goes completely inedible.
What about when a fruit is completely rotten? The smell alone is enough to keep you from eating it, but I'm sure it's also unsafe to eat it as well. There's got to be a line somewhere, like signs of mold.
i don't think people avoid them because they think it will make them sick. i myself avoid them because i don't like eating mush and want a tougher skin on the fruit so i don't damage it myself. If i can get a better quality fruit i might as well. Ofc if you do buy it i think its a no brainer to cut off the mush.
The dark spot or bruised part of a fruit such as an apple does not taste good to me and has a terrible texture. I also thought these bruises can allow things such as salmonella to get inside of the item in question where it cannot be washed off.
Just want to say that American agriculture has recieved 400billion dollar plus subsititude. This kind of waste comes no suprise to me, while I am shocked too see so many fresh food in so many stores. I came from a developing country
Why does non-sellable food have to be trashcanned anyway, I know some retailers give it away or at low price to Caritas or shelters, but even then there's still quite a lot of waste, why couldn't it be given (back) to farmers as food for their animals or compost or biogas-energy-production?
Milk&Toast, does it mean that in order to eat mold bread, I just tear out the moldy part? Remember, when you see mold in bread, do not try to eat it or tear the mold part and eat it.
To see you then advertisers says to avoid on the cable news that work there is a spam clickbait article that says to avoid bread but not fruit. Bread mold can go the route it and it seemed to say that the mold will do you harm because it causes problems for the healthy bacteria
I'll eat the mushy spots if I bought it fresh and it developed those at my house, but I ain't buying mushy fruit that I only eat a fraction of because I have to cut out a part.
@@puppylover9469 But it still doesn't explain why a person who has countless choices would choose something they do not prefer when the ones they do prefer are at the same price and just as easy to get. The average person buys fruits to eat healthy and thus would not even care for what happens to the fruits with blemishes.
Buying these normally dont happens for 2 things: contamination over other fruits, and the worst of all, sellers normally return these to the farmer, leaving him with the loss.
Do we have to wash cabbage/lettuce if we just cut it up and throw it in boiling water to make soup? Or do we have to peel each leaf and wash before we throw it in to cooking water?
Although spotty fruits have been proved to be safe to eat, people are not going to willing buy spotting fruit at a grocery store if there are other options at the same price. Therefore, I think that in order to avoid wasting food which can still be eaten safety, grocery stores should sell spotted fruit at a reduced price, just like foods close to the expiration date. This might save money for both the store, but also the production side of the transaction. If spotty fruit is already present in a person's home, I believe it is important that we work on our food waste and eat the food to the best of our ability. I know that spotty fruits are not going to make me sick. I cut off the part that is not as appetizing and I eat the rest. This saves me money and helps to reduce the amount of wasted food that other people, who are hungry, could have ate. Spotty fruits and vegetables are not an indication that they are inedible, they are simply a part of life and nature.
I thought the mush was a sign of mold. Am I totally wrong or is there a way to tell the difference between rotting fruit and just wounded fruit with this plant-specific bacteria you mention? I have a bad sense of smell btw so I can't tell that way.
If the store give discounts its good to pick missfit veggies and fruits. But sometimes they dont care, and charge you full price. So no way i will take missfits and pay full price.
During video she says that the spots taste bad, then at the end she says the whole thing is "safe and just as delicious", so which is it lady? Guess they spent so much time doing research they forgot to proofread the script and catch this contradiction.
Of course its all ok if you just compost any fruits or vegetables you don't eat If you're growing a garden and just let your composted food return its contents to the soil, you can afford to be picky
The only way you can afford to be picky is if a bunch of people who got really educated live off of corn syrup as it says high fructose corn syrup in carbonated water primarily and supplement that with Factory raised pork. That's who provides the surplus of fruits and vegetables for you to waste. Good job! They die accordingly before they finish working so we don't have to share the Social Security taxes they pay with them. We can afford to spend the taxes they pay on ourselves instead I think was what you meant to say
My local grocery decided to offer 5$ boxes of random fruits and veggies that doesn't sell well. You get not only the unperfect tomatos or pears, but also the smaller brocoli nobody pick, the lonely banana people removed from a group, the overstock apples, etc. This is a true win-win and I hope more grocery would do the same.
What is the store called?
@@karai5082 its on a app, but then you go pick it at your local grocery. Flashfood and FoodHero both does this in Canada.
@@karai5082 Misfits Market
@@lucyhart2380 witty
Lonely banana😭😂
If retailers discounted damaged produce, they could sell them and not have to throw most or any of them away.
or get sued if someone buys a fruir/veg with fungus that just looks like a bruse and gets severely sick. This is part of why we just throw them away instead of reselling. Obviously the market would try to increase their profit but for some markets, they can afford to not take the risk if reselling them.
Boxs You make a good point, but I think that buyers should also have to take some responsibility for eating food that is obviously bad for them if the food is being sold to them at a discount. I would like to know what the laws/rules are regarding this. Thanks for your comment.
You want buyers to make responsible decisions in 2016? What world are you living in?! That's outrageous!
Martin Havens haha...I know, I was being idealistic.
in Australia, quite a few stores sell discounted "imperfect fruit"
I always just cut out the spots and eat the fruit anyway. Never waste food man.
Same here.
You just wasted food.
That if you already buy it but if it's in the store would you buy it if it looked that way and cost the same as the good looking ones
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Sometimes I cut out spots and make jam out of fruits...when I am not sure whether it is safe to eat them raw.
A spoiled watermelon looks like a healthy one, but the taste is so disgusting you'll be afraid of every other watermelon for the rest of your life.
You so right. I've had one.....
Me and my friend were seeing who could fit the most watermelon in their mouth so we both took huGGeeeEEEEEEEEEeEEEEe bites of a rotten watermelon.... She almost threw up and we both had the taste in our mouths for the rest of the day
What does it taste like? Watermelons make my mouth ichy, so I don't often eat them.
FairyRat omg yes.
I love watermelons, its quite plain, not that juicy, and, ANDDDDD one more....
I CANNOT TELL but nvm its plain and not juicy :/
I'm sure that if they wouldn't cost as much as a "good looking" piece of fruit/vegetable, people won't mind buying them.
Buying spotted fruit is like buying something that is close to the expiry date. Obviously you'll buy the one with the longest expiry date if you pay the same for both...
In my country the store sell them very cheap or use it to make the cooked meal and it is quite delicious.
depends, maybe you are making something with bananas and they need to be ripe.
depends, maybe you are making something with bananas and they need to be ripe.
Plus, expiration dates are more like "peak quality dates" and they're more of guesses from the manufacturer. Most things are fine even after weeks past expiration, course won't taste as good.
I know some stores sell them. But here they talk about them not even coming in the stores. They get thrown away before being put in the store. But yes, if they are cheaper, then I'm sure lots of people buy them :)
And expiration dates are just a peak quality date. I'm not saying you can't use it after, of course you can, but if you pay the same price, obviously you'll want the most recent product...
I buy lots of items close to expiration date when they are in discount though.
we have a fruit problem in the united states of people being afraid to eat spotty fruit and we leave so much fruit behind fearing its unedible. If you ever watch videos of child hunger and they show dumps with just millions of crates filled with edible fruit that are being treated like trash because people are afraid to eat them or give them to our children. We don't have a food shortage problem in the United States, we have a food WASTE problem. Ever wonder why our grandparents save everything and we think it's weird? They come from a time where SAVING food was the thing to do because of growing up in a Great Depression lifestyle that we think it's weird. Shout out to the young people with old souls who still save food and feel guilty on throwing food away.
If you truly believed that then go vegan. Meat wastes way too much grains and water that could be used to help starving children that you so care so much about. Animals agriculture also contributes to the co2 pollution more then all the transportation combined. but back to the food thing, i can site all of this if you didnt know this allready if you reply asking. cheers
Step by step my friend. Don't rush, be patient or people won't be with you.
David Pérez i am not what i just stated. i'm just saying if that's what someone bealives in it would make sense to do that.
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*****She never said anything about not being vegan, so your comment is slightly irrelevant, just saying.
@@breadcrumbs3530 i know this is 4 years later but man this is unreadable, at least for me
I always go to the "day old" part of the produce section first. With careful picking, I can get perfectly good fruits and vegetables for a 1/3rd of the price, and many times, even cheaper. All because of "cosmetic" blemishes. Most people think the produce is spoiled. In over 25 years of doing this, I have never once gotten sick or even had an upset stomach.
In summary, they are definitely more shitty but probably won't kill you, so pick them because nobody else would.
Why pay the same price for an inferior product? The message of this video SHOULD be "ask for a discount and save the planet" not " be stupid and buy it for the same price, you can still use 90% of the product".
Why pay the same price for an inferior product? The message of this video SHOULD be "ask for a discount and save the planet" not " be stupid and buy it for the same price, you can still use 90% of the product".
Just don't get the mushy ones, the spotted ones are fine.
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@@breadcrumbs3530 some people in some countries consider hard green mangoes a delicacy but in America monstrous sized mangoes that are too hard and green get tossed into the dumpster or at least sentence to be the field outside of the pen. Back. But the people who work at these places without unions don't understand how the pleasure the zoo animals would take is being destroyed by mixing the vegetables with the fruits. Somebody needs to speak up for the zoo animals and get the grocery stores to not give up on the project but just try to keep the two items separate
A lot of the wasted food isn't damaged or sick at all.
They just formed weird, but people don't want a weirdly shaped fruit or vegetable, so it gets thrown away.
The problem is that schools dont tell us this, so of course nobody knows it.-
+Wolfiee Elia oh that's the worst
i just blend it and make sauce, seasoning, or juice, depending on what it is.
Actually weirdly shaped fruit is almost 100% natural, so I would grab it in an instance, except in EU it is forbidden.
I like buying weird looking peppers because they look funny. They taste fine.
I grow strange looking ones too, though this year I managed to finally, after five years, grow a normal looking bell pepper.
Interesting video! Could you do a behind the scenes video? I'd love to see how these animations are made.
They colab with freelance animators to animate their lessons. That's why every video is different. You can even suggest a speaker, educator or animator yourself!
Interesting comment!! I'd like to see how the comment was made.
+abrar kahn Haha. Well, first I like to carefully select an appropriate compliment. For educational videos, this is usually a reference to how informative or interesting the content was. Then I skillfully articulate a question in my head, pass it through a mental editor to make sure it is concise. After all of that It all comes together to make one amazing comment! Have a *great* day!
Oh, I always assumed that they had a team of animators. That's pretty cool!
Hi, I'm the person who thought of the idea and wrote the script to make this video through TedED. In general, anyone can come up with an idea, approach TEDed, and if they approve, they get freelance animators and voice actors to make the video. There's also a small team of people who edit the script, fact check and work with the educator to make sure the animation is accurate. I can't speak to how the animations themselves are actually made, but I'd love to see their process too. Hope that helps and sorry so late!
I eat my garden produce mushy or perfect smooth because of the effort it takes to grow them so no man left behind
no fruit left behind!
Same.
When I was small (in the 1960s) grandma use to go to the farmer's market and buy a BUNCH of spotty tomatoes, then spend days cutting out the bad spots and canning them. They were great, of course, and the cost was nill.
I think a large part of the problem is the lack of flexibility for some of the retailers faced with fruit/veg affected by cosmetic blemishes or even partial spoilage. I would gladly buy these products if they were reduced in price accordingly, but most of the time they aren't.
Yeah none of this made me want to rush out and grab a mushy tomato
true, but it's implications will make you want to. most of our world's water supply goes to agriculture, meaning much less for you and others to use(as well as a significant contribution to the horrible amounts of humidity some areas of the US in particular have been experiencing). using mushy fruit in bulk would also theoretically drive down the cost of them, as less is wasted.
It doesnt make me want to go out and buy mushy fruits either, but next time I see a brown banana I wont throw it away
***** bake it in a pie
Pie went burnt. :c
Use them to make tomato sauce, they’re already soft so it makes it faster to boil and make spaghetti for dinner.
Why can't we recycle the wasted food as fertiliser or something and since there's TONS of wasted food we wouldn't need to even produce much artificial fertiliser anymore
Thats really good idea.
That’s what a lot of compost has been recently!
Is Spoti-fy safe to eat?
lol made my day
+Zimri Santamaria must've had a shitty day
+Jigolopuff. yes, yes i did. But im happy now😋😂
delete this
+Shelley Christie Delete you
people,people...ted-ed is not telling you to buy rotten, mushy fruit over fresh, unblemished ones...who in their right mind would do that if both fruits cost the same?
i think what ted-ed is trying to say...when you see a fruit or veggie with a few small spots or blemishes you don't throw the WHOLE FUCKING FRUIT away...just cut out the spotty parts then eat the rest of the fruit...that way you minimize the amount of still edible food being wasted...
The rest of the fruit (minus the spotty and mushy parts) is still delicious and safe to consume...
True
I’ve worked with produce for nearly 5 years and this is good to know. I myself have eaten fruit with mushy spots and not only do they taste great, but they’re chewier too which I like
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and here I am thinking that those blemishes were "bruised" parts
That's why diner within the grocery store, is a great idea to utilize these spotted fruit & vegetable.
In the US, all produce is put in the same place and sold at the same price. Customers have no incentive to buy the mushy, blemished fruits, even if they are salvageable. Thus, the extras are thrown away. In many cases, waste produce is recycled into organic compost, which is another form of "salvage".
This is why they need a discount or bargain bin for produce. Maybe even a secondhand retailer to sell the food to folks who'll buy it and know how to use it. The problem is there is no middle ground between Grade-A supermarket fare and dumpster diving.
@@MUtley-rf8vg I found it in Los Angeles the churches glean to an extraordinary degree and one time there was a guy and one of those little tiny parks in front of the millionaire condo high-rises and another guy pushing a cart with Gourmet restaurant food. He asked us if we wanted something to eat and he was able to put together this plate that was like $100 restaurant meal some of the best food I've ever eaten in my life. The guy that was sitting on the bench with the energy drinks didn't want one but I don't regret saying yes. Just watching him work was worth the risk I took . He clearly had been trained in food preparation and have done high volume production at some point. Sometimes you would see items in the cart with nobody around that were like you know solid gold in value and then maybe you would take a portion and you hear shouting in the distance but it turns out the person isn't upset they want offer you even more.
One Thanksgiving people are bringing their leftovers to give away and that's what I learned that the households that have professional chefs working in them you can taste the difference. One Baker brought a large quantity of organic fruit pies but those are not the same as the hot leftovers from Thanksgiving. we were just overwhelmed with a donations and I worked on the line volunteering to serve myself. It was so much wonderful food so much variety I think that for many people that night and was their best Thanksgiving. during the pandemic I think there is some Innovation occurring based upon what I've witnessed with churches doing the dumpster diving themselves for their congregation.
for most of my life I have brought expired food to the attention of the grocery store in a kind of denial about what the consequence would be. On the other hand I just saw some condoms that were expired several years ago on the Shelf being Mark 75% off with the fresh ones with more than a year before the use by date on the same shelf also 75% off. There is a lack of awareness in ordinary times about those who are without sufficient fresh and we don't have to mean extremely fresh but we mean non-processed fruits and vegetables that's what the Press refers to. I think there's a lot of confusion about that. Because preserving something it's not the same as making it half spoiled. I would rather have something a week old that looks bad and I have to throw a portion away than something that is several years old and has no flavor that I would want but is the animal otherwise
I hate people who waste or even disrespect food. I work in a bakery and this co-worker often throw food items e.g. breads, buns, butter etc. at another person and I really hate him because of this behavior. One day I got so mad at him and slapped him with a pastry in my hand
XD pastry attack
Achievement achieved: Pastry Pacifist
This video is a great relief! Thank for uploading!
Защитное действие растительной пищи недооценивается во многих исследованиях, потому что они скорее посвящены количеству потребляемых овощей и фруктов, а не их качеству.
Люди с большей охотой едят бананы и огурцы, чем чернику и кале.
Но разнообразие тоже важно.
В западных странах пять самых распространённых фруктов - это яблоки и яблочный сок, бананы, виноград, апельсины и дыня.
А самыми популярными овощами являются помидоры (в том числе консервированные), картофель и салат «Айсберг»‹‹12››.
if they rnt at a discount (which they usually rnt if its a big market chain) then its a pretty defeatist thing to not pick the best possible produce u can get
Spots are actually where the cellular membranes have weakened (cells are mostly water, that causes mush). You can always cut around decomposed areas, and mulch them.
On ananas, brown spots are area's where sugar is more concentrated, eat away
The animations are good, and I understand that they are part of the concept. But I would have really prefered, if you had just used pictures of fruit, so I didn't have to interpret what kind of spots the animation aimed for. I'm sure this would make your video more fruitful.
haha good one
I personally always buy fruit without any spots on it. It’s good to know that it’s not always mosh or mold (already). When I was on vacation with my friends I experienced a unpleasant grocery shop. I saw some leetchi’s with a big discount on it, later i found out there was already mold on it so watch out what you’re buying on sale!
I like to buy discount imperfect fruits for really cheap, and make juice out of it. Yeah, i need to cut few parts out sometimes
0:15 "in part of cosmetic problems and percieved spoilage..." , or to keep the market prices high.
if more food is on the market the farmers get less money for their products, even that 30% more doesn´t make up for the price loss. this especially hits farmers in africa, which have a huge problem with sinking wheat prices. another example would be the milk overproduction in e.g. Germany, endangering the livelihood of many farmers.
my mom always told me that fruits with spots can be eaten and are absolutely safe for us.
Beautiful animation!
my local grocery store sets out the rotten fruit or veggies for pig farmers to.pick it up so it's not a complete waste. my family would pick it up and feed it to our chickens. They loved it
That is why I love organic fruits/veggies and the reason why my nutrition professor recommended to watch this video!
The compost bin is a good use if you have a moldy pumkin
great video, thanks for the info
Wow I love the way they made the video
Yes it's called a knife cut spots out and move on with your day.
Spots aren't even bad, you're just picky.
GJ, I was working in Africa a few years ago, and a group of us were eating some peaches from the tree. The peaches had worms in them. I used my pocket knife to dig out the worms. As I was eating peaches, I noticed an African friend of mine eating peaches, but he was not digging out any worms. I asked him, "Hey what are doing about the worms?" He replied with an absolute straight face, "When I see a worm, I turn the peach and keep eating." I guess the story will not mean much to someone who was not there, but we all almost fell over laughing when he said that.
With what vegetables cost, I'm not accepting any that I have to cut bits off of. Also, soft tomatoes don't have a texture that I find pleasing. If you want to eat rotten vegetables, knock yourselves out but I'll stick to quality produce.
I make it a point to not skip our on the spotty food, and take any food I can get. Since I took a conservation class and learned how much food we waist that people work hard to give us, I try to use up the stick.
Bananas with spots are actually better for you.
Under-ripe bananas can promote constipation.
Freeze the bananas when they get too ripe to eat fresh.
Then microwave briefly, cut in half, and squirt out the flesh to use on cereals or smoothies.
Every tomato is a battlefield.
lel
I usually cut off the part of the fruit or vegetable that's already mushy. I don't like the way the overripe parts taste. Still when food has a moldy part I don't eat the food anymore. And yes always remember to wash your food!
Yeah, I try to buy produce even if it has blemishes from other people's hands or even if one strawberry in the pack is bruised or has mold.
Thank you. I love learning
I don't know... some mushy strawberries look kinda sus. especially when they have white fuzz on them
White fuzz is no good. It's mold.
that is rotten flesh
I'm not so sure about eating soft fruits like tomatoes that have spots like that but I know for a fact that harder ones like apples are fine. Hell thats half of why apple trees spread across the country. They keep so well that it made the perfect fruit to pack when folks were moving west leading to their seeds getting spread all over.
I think the biggest deal here is that at the price fruit & veggies are these days, you want all you can get for your money. Buying half a good apple for the price of 1 or maybe 80% of its value (incredibly rare discount) is just not nice. When you buy you want the full thing and for it to last more than a day before it goes completely inedible.
"They just hang out invisibly on the surface."
thanx so much for thia enlightening video and I loved learning about all this, will definitely tell my family so they can become non-wasters too!
At 3:08, even Elizabeth is wasting by the way her animated knife cuts the tomato........
What about when a fruit is completely rotten? The smell alone is enough to keep you from eating it, but I'm sure it's also unsafe to eat it as well. There's got to be a line somewhere, like signs of mold.
I'm pretty sure those spots don't smell, like the video said, it's just cosmetic
i don't think people avoid them because they think it will make them sick. i myself avoid them because i don't like eating mush and want a tougher skin on the fruit so i don't damage it myself. If i can get a better quality fruit i might as well. Ofc if you do buy it i think its a no brainer to cut off the mush.
i love the voice of the girl
cool ... more lessons on plant disease plz.
The dark spot or bruised part of a fruit such as an apple does not taste good to me and has a terrible texture. I also thought these bruises can allow things such as salmonella to get inside of the item in question where it cannot be washed off.
Just want to say that American agriculture has recieved 400billion dollar plus subsititude. This kind of waste comes no suprise to me, while I am shocked too see so many fresh food in so many stores. I came from a developing country
"It enters the fruit and leaves" is a more ambiguous statement than I think was intended.
Wasteing food=BAD
Saveing food=GOOD
=^•-•^=
Why does non-sellable food have to be trashcanned anyway, I know some retailers give it away or at low price to Caritas or shelters, but even then there's still quite a lot of waste, why couldn't it be given (back) to farmers as food for their animals or compost or biogas-energy-production?
No eco system for that and no motivation+ no profit
Finally now I have science to back up why I wash my fruit and vegetables.
Its logic to wash food. And poor hygiene if you don't. You don't need logic to wash your hands after using the bathroom because its basic hygiene
molly oldfield Unfortunately logic does not apply to stupid or ignorant people. Hence the reason science helps.
Milk&Toast, does it mean that in order to eat mold bread, I just tear out the moldy part? Remember, when you see mold in bread, do not try to eat it or tear the mold part and eat it.
To see you then advertisers says to avoid on the cable news that work there is a spam clickbait article that says to avoid bread but not fruit. Bread mold can go the route it and it seemed to say that the mold will do you harm because it causes problems for the healthy bacteria
This vid is not 100% true, but is pretty accurate enough for most people. A+
the answer is yes to everyone who genuinely didn't know... you're probably the reason we throw away massive amounts of food in the first world
I just want to point out that this video could have been 1 second long. "Yep" or "Nope"
so is the answer yep or nope?
yep
Merriane Mateo The answer is "Yep, but rinse stuff."
But you wouldn't understand why, you wouldn't learn much. Why wouldn't you want to know what the answer is the way it is.
If you just wanted to know the answer, you could have googled it. Besides, why would they sell fruit not safe to eat even if noone was buying it?
good info here thanks for clearing this up!
hmm..
this is just what a spotted fruit would want me to think...
In my country spotted riped mangoes are bought first instead of perfect one because it's sweeter
I'll eat the mushy spots if I bought it fresh and it developed those at my house, but I ain't buying mushy fruit that I only eat a fraction of because I have to cut out a part.
why would I buy a half rotten apple when I can buy a good one for the same price :/
because most people think that way so then that one blemished apple ends up thrown away when it doesn't even taste any different
@@puppylover9469 But it still doesn't explain why a person who has countless choices would choose something they do not prefer when the ones they do prefer are at the same price and just as easy to get. The average person buys fruits to eat healthy and thus would not even care for what happens to the fruits with blemishes.
@@puppylover9469 When you buy a pencil, you wouldn't care for anything except for the price and the aesthetics. Same goes with fruits
Buying these normally dont happens for 2 things: contamination over other fruits, and the worst of all, sellers normally return these to the farmer, leaving him with the loss.
Do we have to wash cabbage/lettuce if we just cut it up and throw it in boiling water to make soup? Or do we have to peel each leaf and wash before we throw it in to cooking water?
The next step after mushy is moldy. Can you eat those if you cut away the bad part?
Increíble que haya que explicar a la gente que un tomate con 1 piquete no es un tomate malo sino de gazpacho.
Ted ed never dissatisfies.
I came here because of a banana video, and bananas were not discussed. BOO TED-ED FOR YOUR MISLEADING OF ME
Theres a potential. If the demand is high enough, walmart prolly would start giving out spotty produce at a massive discount
Not moldy stuff. It's not safe to trim away mold, because there is some left you cannot see.
Although spotty fruits have been proved to be safe to eat, people are not going to willing buy spotting fruit at a grocery store if there are other options at the same price. Therefore, I think that in order to avoid wasting food which can still be eaten safety, grocery stores should sell spotted fruit at a reduced price, just like foods close to the expiration date. This might save money for both the store, but also the production side of the transaction. If spotty fruit is already present in a person's home, I believe it is important that we work on our food waste and eat the food to the best of our ability. I know that spotty fruits are not going to make me sick. I cut off the part that is not as appetizing and I eat the rest. This saves me money and helps to reduce the amount of wasted food that other people, who are hungry, could have ate. Spotty fruits and vegetables are not an indication that they are inedible, they are simply a part of life and nature.
Me in the market:
I'm looking for spotted fruits!
sometimes mushy one taste more delicious than the good looking one, just matter how bad is the damage..
The mushy parts of a fruit or vegetable taste bad because it's necrotic, but they're just as delicious!
WAAAAAT
There is no such thing as Plantaenoosis. Also overripe fruit taste the best specially Bananas :P
I went blueberry picking a few days ago. There's one tree that was completely covered in spots. I guess this explains it
dang, i should have trusted my mom more, she's been right all along
I thought the mush was a sign of mold. Am I totally wrong or is there a way to tell the difference between rotting fruit and just wounded fruit with this plant-specific bacteria you mention? I have a bad sense of smell btw so I can't tell that way.
Watch 3:00, then immediately watch 3:48. Mixed message much TED-Ed?
What store gives you a discount for spotted veggies? Never heard of this, but I have my Sharpie ready.
Walmart usually has dollar bags filled with produce that are fine.
It's not really a waste since it can be used as composte
That's a relief
my schools Apple's are always spotty
Minus points for “a [sic] epic battle” said by the narrator.
If the store give discounts its good to pick missfit veggies and fruits. But sometimes they dont care, and charge you full price. So no way i will take missfits and pay full price.
During video she says that the spots taste bad, then at the end she says the whole thing is "safe and just as delicious", so which is it lady?
Guess they spent so much time doing research they forgot to proofread the script and catch this contradiction.
Of course its all ok if you just compost any fruits or vegetables you don't eat
If you're growing a garden and just let your composted food return its contents to the soil, you can afford to be picky
The only way you can afford to be picky is if a bunch of people who got really educated live off of corn syrup as it says high fructose corn syrup in carbonated water primarily and supplement that with Factory raised pork. That's who provides the surplus of fruits and vegetables for you to waste. Good job! They die accordingly before they finish working so we don't have to share the Social Security taxes they pay with them. We can afford to spend the taxes they pay on ourselves instead I think was what you meant to say
Yeah I still won't eat that.
Ah yes finally the answer i always needed
why store so long? why not consume the same day?