Apeel replaces the natural protective coating lost with our agricultural “engineering” and plastic. From an environmental point of view, that means a significant reduction in single-use plastics. One ...

In the four years since the company started keeping track, Apeel has helped divert about 166 million pieces of produce from going to waste, helped conserve 1.8 billion gallons of water, and kept ...

Since it began stocking Apeel-coated avocados four months ago, Harps, a grocery chain in the Midwest, has reduced the amount of the popular produce it’s had to throw out by 60%.

A Santa Barbara-based startup called Apeel Sciences says it has invented edible coatings that can extend a fruit or vegetable's shelf life by as much as five times. That means, if you spray it on ...

Apeel CEO James Rogers, who founded the Santa Barbara, California-based company in 2012, said Apeel’s plant-derived technology gives produce an extra “peel” that slows the rate of water loss ...

Apeel recently moved into a 105,000-square-foot facility. According to CEO James Rogers, at least six farms in Southern California and Africa are using their products.

Apeel is already expanding outside the United States with partners in Africa to help lessen the load on global infrastructure costs. One of the highest costs a country can bear, Rogers added.

In Goleta, Apeel chemists have developed a coating that acts as a second skin for produce. The company claims the compounds they use all come from plants, and there's no need to wash it off before ...

Apeel is the next evolution of this idea. Over the last 2,000 years, we have learned a lot about material science; now maybe we can take some of those ideas and apply them the same way the monks ...

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Apeel is already expanding outside the United States with partners in Africa to help lessen the load on global infrastructure costs. One of the highest costs a country can bear, Rogers added.