Apeel Sciences was founded in 2012 by CEO James Rogers. He received two grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ...

If you shop at Whole Foods for produce, you may have noticed that some items feature a label about a protective coating. Is this preservative apeel?

Michelle Pfeiffer, a legendary actress known for decades of blockbuster roles, just sent shockwaves through social media with a warning ...

What is Apeel made out of? The protective coating is meant to keep fruits and vegetable safe, but some say the compound can cause allergic reactions.

Apeel Sciences is hoping to reduce that by making fruits and vegetables keep longer. Coronavirus lockdowns have exacerbated the problem of food waste. Up to 40% of ...

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 ...

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 also records and analyzes data about color, texture, size and volume, and feeds this back into its computer systems to inform the development process (put another way, ...

Apeel Sciences The product is FDA approved, and the thin layer it leaves behind is edible and tasteless. It would replace the wax that is often used on grocery store produce.

Apeel says that the retailers selling its avocados throw out 50% fewer of them -- a halving of food waste. And there are other sustainability bona fides, too, such as reduced packaging.

[Photo: Apeel Sciences] Having only hit markets a few months ago, it’s making significant strides. The startup, whose tech can anywhere from double to quadruple an item’s shelf life, has over ...

The food tech brand received two grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation in 2012 and 2015 totaling less than $1.1 ...