{"id":17041,"date":"2025-12-18T13:12:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gryoungscholarsmagazine.org\/?p=337"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:12:52","slug":"eco-friendly-start-up-selling-unusual-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/?p=17041","title":{"rendered":"Eco-Friendly Start-Up Selling Unusual Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although they are ugly and misshapen, they are perfectly eatable. You will not find these fruits and vegetables in your grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>Huge amounts of deformed fruit and vegetables are rejected on the farm as we want the fiber that we eat to look beautiful before it reaches our mouth. A startup called Imperfect wants to change things. The company plans to collect such rejected products and ship 10-14 lbs. of such fruits to your doorsteps for just $12.<\/p>\n<p>According to Natural Resources Defenses Council, 40 percent of the food that is produced is wasted. That amounts to $165 billion. Imperfect is one of the few companies that is looking to cut down the wastage of food. The company ships boxes of fruits, vegetables or a combination of both (which costs $18).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the farmers will be able to earn a little extra on the wasted production. Customers get products in a budget and each pound of the fruits and vegetables purchased is able to save 10 to 35 gallons of water.<\/p>\n<p>Kay Song<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-338\" src=\"http:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image006.jpg\" alt=\"image006\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although they are ugly and misshapen, they are perfectly eatable. You will not find these fruits and vegetables<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}