Ugly fruits and vegetables: why you have to learn to love them

A cohort of US delivery services want to change the way we view, cook and eat 'imperfect' produce that grocery stores regularly banish

King-sized kiwis, curvy squash and smaller-than-usual apples and limes. That was the "ugly" produce count in boxes of fruits and vegetables Deborah Levine recently received at her home in the San Francisco Bay Area. While most of the produce she gets in her biweekly deliveries is "very normal", she recalls one particular veggie. It was like a siamese carrot, but with part of it broken off, it looked like it "didn't have its leg".

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