![]() ![]() “Some people might not read that it’s a beef heart meatball and they just might see meatball. “I think so many people think about dumpster diving or using rotten ingredients, but we have this wildly overproductive food system that accounts for a ton of waste,” said Kayla Abe, co-owner of Shuggie’s Trash Pie. In San Francisco, a restaurant serving pizza and wine focuses on upcycled ingredients such as ugly mushrooms, misshapen peppers and discolored tomatoes, as well as offcuts of meat for menu stars like beef heart meatballs. The movement isn’t confined to recycled products found in a trendy ice cream store, farmers market or natural grocery. The company’s okara flour is featured in Salt & Straw’s new “Salted Caramel & Okara Cupcakes” flavor. “And then we use that flour to make things like baking mixes and ready-to-eat cookies.” We turn that into a high fiber gluten-free flour called okara flour,” co-founder Caroline Cotto said. “Our first product is the pulp leftover from making soy milk. These seals, which adorn the new Salt & Straw upcycled flavors, raise awareness with consumers that the company making the food used such ingredients. The Upcycled Food Association, which will celebrate World Upcycling Day on Saturday, issues an official “Upcycling Certified” seal to qualifying products. Ingredients include fruits and vegetables from farms nationwide that are perfectly edible but often rejected by restaurants and grocery stores because of their shape or color, like white strawberries, wilted greens and ugly mushrooms. Upcycled food is becoming increasingly common in cake mixes and veggie chips at natural grocery stores. about 40% of the country’s food production - costing the national economy more than $200 billion, according to the Upcycled Food Association. ![]() ![]() ![]() More than 35 million tons (31 million metric tons) of food are wasted every year in the U.S. It’s a trend gaining ground as consumers spend more time reading packaging labels and menu ingredients to learn where their food comes from and how it affects the environment. ![]()
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