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Rogers: Apeel's invisible plant-based peel extends produce shelf life without refrigeration
“We've developed a way to use food to preserve other food. And so we use natural plant materials to create an invisible peel that we apply to the outside of fresh produce. And by constructing this peel in the appropriate way from these food materials, we're abl…”
Rogers: Apeel extends fresh produce shelf life by three to five times
“And by doing that, we can extend the useful shelf life of fresh produce by a factor of three to five times.”
Rogers: Material science will yield produce lasting twice as long without pesticides
“So we view the future as really an opportunity to use this knowledge of material science and knowledge of how to reconstruct nature's molecules into clever structures that will ultimately allow us to deliver produce that lasts twice as long for the consumer an…”
Rogers: Early-harvested tomatoes lose 80% of their potential nutrient density
“And the reason for that is that the tomatoes harvested at a stage three, at a color index of three, which means it's green. And you really want to consume it at a color index of five or six when it, when it's that deep red. And the reason for that is that the …”
James Rogers: Apeel's protective produce coating is completely imperceptible to taste
“Yeah, you actually, you can't taste it. It actually tastes much closer to the fruit when it was actually picked originally.”
James Rogers: Apeel Sciences powers hardware testing using Raspberry Pis and Arduinos
“For us, our entire office runs on Raspberry Pis and Arduino units that control controllers to measure different stuff.”
James Rogers: Apeel extended finger lime shelf life from 5 to 25 days
“And the challenge with them is, you know, they brought them in the US, they grow a bunch of them, but the shelf life of these things is like five days, maybe. A supply chain that, that only lasts five days doesn't get you into very many stores. It's just not r…”
James Rogers: Breakthrough technology will come from nature, not isolated invention
“And the way that we are going to be able to build new things, we believe, is not by Trying to come up with entirely new solutions on our own, but by rather figuring out how to ask nature the questions, which it has already spent, it's already got a 3.8 billion…”
James Rogers: Apeel uses natural plant building blocks instead of synthetic materials
“The trick about what we're doing is that it's not some sort of synthetic material that nature's never seen before. We're just using the exact same building blocks that nature uses every single day, and we're simply repurposing them for a different application.”
James Rogers: Apeel extracts specific molecular isomers for lightweight produce coatings
“We actually know down to the isomer what these materials are when we create these blends. We then extract those really particular subsets of materials. I turn them into powders. So they're lightweight, they're low cost to distribute. And then we ship them to w…”