Value Added Products From Waste

I have mentioned my intention to put some focus on the issue of food loss/waste. There are a lot of quotes and figures I have seen over the years (maybe I will put these together in a formal way), cereal losses can be 15 to 25%, fruit & vegetable losses were once measured at 62% in a Tanzanian study, the world produces much more food that is uses, USA uses three times more agricultural output than it required for healthy lives and the UK recently found that food processing generated 1.8 million tons a year of degradable waste while households throw away 6.7 million tons of food a day.

For now I am just showing a food processing solution to a particular waste problem.

This describes the use of osmotic drying to produce a high value processed product from pears with slight defects. In South Africa damaged fruit is often diverted to juice production but the value addition is low.