Tag: ugly food

ITE’s Culinary Students Develop Recipes For Unconsumed Food At Home [Press Release]

Homemakers can turn unconsumed food into a new dish instead of throwing them away

Singapore, 17 Oct 2016 – Zero Waste SG and ITE College West are co-organising the inaugural “Save Food Cut Waste” Recipes Competition 2016 for ITE’s culinary students to develop recipes for unconsumed food at home. Sheng Siong is the Food Sponsor and the National Environment Agency…

Reducing food waste: Getting Singaporeans to embrace ‘ugly food’ [News]

Reducing food waste: Getting Singaporeans to embrace ‘ugly food’ [News] By Liyana Othman, Channel NewsAsia, 24 Oct 2016 More than 790,000 tonnes of food waste was generated in Singapore last year – almost the equivalent of throwing away two bowls of rice every day. There are no official figures on the breakdown of food waste in Singapore, and also how…

8 in 10 Singaporeans will avoid buying ‘ugly’ fruits, vegetables: Survey [News]

8 in 10 Singaporeans will avoid buying ‘ugly’ fruits, vegetables: Survey [News] By Wong Casandra, TODAY, 12 Oct 2016 When buying groceries, would you pass over a dented apple or a slightly browned banana? If your answer is yes, you are among the majority, going by the findings of a survey on “ugly food” — food that does not look…