Apeel, which made its name in the food world with a patented, plant-based coating that extends the freshness of produce like avocados, English cucumbers, mangoes and organic apples, is adding technology that can see what’s happening inside fruits and vegetables. The idea is to give everyone across the food-supply chain valuable and cost-saving information like “When will this apple go bad?”
“It reveals a lot about a piece of produce that we can’t see or detect by standing in the grocery aisle giving it a squish or smell test,” said Kathleen Merrigan, former deputy Agriculture chief in the Obama administration who is both an adviser to the California-based company and an investor.
Oprah-backed Apeel wants to help grocers peer into their produce
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A startup that counts Oprah Winfrey among its backers is offering a new way to let grocers know when produce will be past peak as part of its attempt to stamp out food waste.
Apeel Sciences Inc., the agriculture-technology company that began nine years ago with a US$100,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and is now valued at more than US$1 billion, is moving into the next phase of founder James Rogersâ vision to solve the US$2.6 trillion problem of discarded food.
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TAMPA, Fla. - James Rogers’ wife Lee cannot speak. A traumatic brain injury 12 years ago left her bedridden. There’s no communication between us at all, he said. I taught her several years ago, the only way we can communicate, I taught her by telling her how much I love her to blink her eyes.
But that’s not the only way Rogers expresses his devotion – the Tampa resident has spent the last several months trying to get his wife the COVID-19 vaccine. It’s been the worst thing to happen to me, he complained.