Company Tackles Food Waste By Turning Expiring Fruit Into Edible Powders

A sign of the growing movement to reduce food waste – 1.3 billion tons a year globally -- is the launch of a Swedish company that has figured out a way to turn expiring fruit that can’t be sold into powders that can be used as yogurt toppings, or as a baking or ice cream making ingredient. FoPo, which is testing the powders as a form of disaster relief in the Philippines, launched a Kickstarter campaign in May that raised more than $25,000. Ten local supermarkets are donating near-expired produce, and 26 stores have offered to buy back the finished powder.