In produce, ugliness is only skin deep

Approximately 26% of all fruits and vegetables are thrown away before they even reaches grocery stores in the United States, leading to billions of pounds of waste each year. Perfectly edible, wonderfully nutritious apples, peaches, carrots and onions rot in our landfills —in a country where 1 in 6 people are considered food insecure and where more than 80% of us are not eating enough produce.