Food waste: bread

🗑️ Food waste is a huge problem and I wanted to know what I should do. What’s the one action or product to focus on as an individual?

My research led me to bread:

🌾 Grains are the most wasted food in terms of calories

🏠 In the West, most bread waste happens in households

😒 We often throw bread away not because it’s moldy, but because it’s stale and less tasty

🗑 People who eat bread heels/crusts waste less food in general

That is why I decided to focus on bread, specifically on bread heels or crusts.

And when I calculated the impact I was surprised at how much land and water goes into one bread slice.

Eating leftover bread is not only about saving land and water. It’s also a symbolic act to appreciate our food more.

Eating leftover bread can be starting point for tackling food waste because we need a change of perspective.

It’s about valuing everything that goes into food production and acknowledging that food is too valuable to be wasted.

To remember that food is one of our first basic needs.

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By Frank Holleman


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