{"id":14422,"date":"2012-05-15T09:51:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T15:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=14422"},"modified":"2012-05-15T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T15:51:18","slug":"food-waste-smart-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/food-waste-smart-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Food Waste with Your Smart Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blackberry-smart-phone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14423\" title=\"blackberry smart phone\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blackberry-smart-phone.jpg\" alt=\"blackberry smart phone\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blackberry-smart-phone.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blackberry-smart-phone-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever bitten into a piece of fruit or a vegetable and found that it wasn&#8217;t nearly as fresh and tasty as it looked? Sure, we&#8217;ve all had that happen&#8230; and, as we&#8217;ve discussed before, this is <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2011\/04\/fruit-production-sustainable\/\">a major source of resource waste<\/a> in our food supply. There&#8217;s really not a whole lot you can do about it right now other than check your produce as closely as possible when you buy it&#8230; and, even then, you&#8217;re bound to face some disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>Scientist at Germany&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraunhofer.de\/en.html\">Fraunhofer Institute<\/a> are working on technology that can eliminate even more of that food waste by making every consumer a quality tester. They&#8217;re developing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/helloworld\/27844\/?ref=rss\">a miniature spectrometer<\/a> which could attach to your smart phone and tell you at the point of sale how ripe that fruit or vegetable is (or, for that matter, how good a piece meat is). No more tapping an apple or tomato: just scan it with your phone to &#8220;assess starch, protein, water, and fat content&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not out yet (that&#8217;s still a few years off), but such technology could help reduce &#8220;disappointment shrink&#8221; significantly I would think (though things will still go bad if you don&#8217;t eat them fast enough). \u00a0And I&#8217;m sure this would have ramifications up the supply chain &#8211; grocers would have to be more careful about what they put out in their produce bins.<\/p>\n<p>Got thoughts about what this would mean for the fruit and vegetable supply? Tell us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/adamwerbach\/status\/202103487734087680\">@adamwerbach<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/roozbeh11\/4137075891\/\">Roozbeh Rokni<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photo pin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be great to know if a piece of fruit was overripe or otherwise lacking in quality before you bit into it? You may soon be able to test it with your smart phone before buying it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":14423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,7],"tags":[19,3668,5747,2500,48],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Using Smart Phones to Reduce Food Waste<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Scientists in Germany are developing technology that would allow you to scan produce with your smart phone to test its freshness.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/food-waste-smart-phone\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta 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