If you want to know what healthy snacks you'll be eating in the next few years, Anaheim Convention Center was the place to be last week, for Expo West, officially Natural Products Expo West.
Known as the Cannes Film Festival of natural nibbles, the SXSW of organic snacks, the Super Bowl of conscious Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Expo West is where global business gets done and the future of food is decided.
The United States generates more food waste than all but two countries. To address this, the federal government set a goal to cut food waste in half by 2030 compared to 2016 levels, to about 164 pounds per person annually. But a new study published in Nature Food and led by University of California, Davis, reveals that current state policies are falling short. Since 2016, per capita food waste has increased instead of decreasing.
da Silva Simão, R., de Moraes, J.O., Lopes, J.B., Frabetti, A.C.C., Carciofi, B.A.M. and Laurindo, J.B., 2022. Survival analysis to predict how color influences the shelf life of strawberry leather. Foods, 11 (2), 218. [doi:10.3390/foods11020218]
