Every day we collectively bin around a million bananas, 360,000 oranges and 33,000 apples, helping to make fruit the fifth biggest contributor to home food waste, according to the campaigning waste charity WRAP.
True, some of that fruit is beyond saving. We have all been caught out by slimy, visibly mouldy items lurking forgotten in fruit bowls or fridge drawers. Safety advice with such inedible items is obvious, discard them.
But often we throw away fruit: bruised apples, bananas with brown patches, wrinkled lemons, soft, overripe berries, which, if trimmed, or used in cooking, would taste great. Binning such items is damaging, both economically and ecologically.
Each year, says WRAP, the average four-person British household wastes £1,000 on uneaten food; 60% of food waste happens in domestic kitchens. And, globally,…
