Ugly but edible.

PositionFOOD - Discounted ugly fruits and vegetables - Brief article

Every year in the U.S., about 133 billion pounds of food goes to waste. A lot of it is fruits and veggies discarded simply because they're not pretty enough to be displayed on store shelves. But a company in the San Francisco Bay Area is trying to change that: Imperfect Produce collects ugly fruit and vegetables from farmers and wholesale markets and sells them to local residents at a deep discount-30 to 50 percent off the regular price. Similar campaigns are under way in places like Boston and Washington, D.C., as...

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