New AI Tool Helps You Pick the Perfectly Ripe Avocado Using Your Phone, Thus Reducing Food Waste

New AI Tool Helps You Pick the Perfectly Ripe Avocado Using Your Phone, Thus Reducing Food Waste

Luyao Ma was inspired to create this AI tool after feeling repetitive confusion from not being able to tell a ripe avocado from an overripe one.

Americans alone consume more than 2.8 billion pounds of avocados annually, according to the WSJ. They use them to make toasts and blend smoothies, but the leftover avocado peelings end up in waste, contributing to environmental pollution, as found in Current Research in Food Science.

Avocados don't ripen on the tree, but rather after they are plucked and come into contact with ethylene gas, which initiates their ripening process.

the starting point of this entire matrix of avocado-related dilemmas is when it “ripens”

Author's summary: AI tool helps reduce food waste by picking ripe avocados.

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