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FoodTusker is a smart food container system that keeps track of your leftovers, so you never forget them. With FoodTusker you log food that you store, and it will remind you when it is due to expire.
We all do it. We start with the best of intentions. After pouring your heart into cooking a beautiful gourmet meal or eating at an expensive restaurant, we want to save whatever is leftover. Why wouldn’t you? It’s such a waste not to.
But then life happens and we forget. After all, we are all busy people. Unfortunately, a few weeks later we’ve now to get face the disgusting rotting mess that has grown in our refrigerator. So now end up two problems: wasted food and disgusting cleanup. You’re not the only one.
Did you know that between 30 and 40% of food is wasted on the way from the farm to our kitchen tables? According to ReFED, in 2023 and in the US alone, the cost of wasted food was $261 billion. In addition, this has contributed to 154 million metric tons of CO2 emissions--the equivalent of 36 million passenger vehicles over the course of the year. This even more tragic when you consider that over 780 million people face hunger and 2.4 billion people are food insecure worldwide. Altogether the economic impact is substantial--over $1T in direct economic loss and $2.6T when accounting for environmental and social costs.
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Steve Hong
Founder and CEO