Giving the gift of a perfect apple -- without a single blemish -- is an honored tradition in Japan. Americans don't care much for misshapen fruit, either. But Canada's biggest food retailer ...

At Imperfect Produce, no fruit or vegetable is too small, too big, or too misshapen to be eaten. And in highlighting “ugly” produce with creative marketing, ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --A San Francisco-based service called Imperfect Produce recently expanded into Minnesota with one message: Buy ugly fruit.The company connects its customers to produce unfit ...

Food waste exists across the food supply chain, thanks to pests and mold, poor climate control and household waste. “Imperfect” produce is often turned away by grocery stores for not meeting ...

Armstrong, an Air Force veteran who studied distillation through University of Kentucky, annually crushes about 200 thousand-pound-bins-worth of apples, adding yeast to create a hard apple cider ...

Remember the ugly fruit and vegetables that were all the rage in France last summer? We’ll, they’re coming to America. More to the point: They’ve actually been here this whole time — just ...

About 4,000 tonnes of fresh fruit passes through the factory a year. "Mangoes are the biggest part of our range," Ms Dean said. "But we also dry pineapples [and] we do apples, pears, strawberries ...