How Machine Learning Is Rebuilding Food Supply Chains Into Smarter, Cleaner Systems The Food We Waste Isn’t “Just Food” Admit it—we’ve all done it. A bag of spinach that looked flawless at the store ends up slimy two days later. Strawberries that were “fine yesterday” suddenly grow fuzzy overnight. A yogurt slips past its best-before date and feels questionable, so it gets tossed. It feels small in the moment. But collectively, it’s enormous. Around the world, humans waste 1.