Extend Shelf Life

Focus area

Website

Target Market(s)
Farming, Processing, Retail, Logistic, HaFS

Founding date
2012

Country
USA

Development Stage
Commercial
The Solution
A layer of tasteless, odorless, plant-based protection on the surface of fruit and vegetables. Apeel helps to keep moisture in and oxygen out, which means produce lasts twice as long.
Case Study
Single-use plastic is one of the major contributors to plastic pollution. In February 2021, the EU
Globally one-third to half of all food produced for consumption goes to waste, and fresh produce has particularly high food waste rates due to its high perishability(1).
Apeel has developed a coating (based on natural lipids found in vegetables) to slow down fruit and vegetable degradation by preventing dehydration and keeping oxygen out.
With the coating in place on an avocado, for example, the softening rate decreases by 60% and water loss by 30%, thereby doubling the ripeness window.
Existing Customers
- Swakefern
- The Fresh Grocers
- Dearborn Market
- Fairway
Impact
- FLW reduction
Contact

News feed
- 25/03/2022 – Apeel announces Retail Advisory Board
- 24/02/2022 – UK retailer partners with Apeel Sciences for citrus, avocados
- 16/02/2022 – Eroski debuts Apeel citrus
- 15/02/2022 – Tesco to Try Apeel Edible Coating
- 18/08/2021 – Apeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains
- 01/08/2021 – Apeel Sciences Secures New Funding to Fight Food Waste
- 26/05/2020 – Preventing food waste nets Apeel $250 million from Singapore’s government, Oprah and Katy Perry