WONKY fruit and vegetables are making a reappearance on supermarket shelves after a campaign by the farmers’ union to make supermarkets lower their standards on perfect-looking produce.
The National Farmers Union say wet weather in June and July has left many crops down and meant supermarkets have had to bow to pressure and start accepting misshapen carrots and lumpy apples.
Lee Abbey, a horticulture adviser at the National Farmers Union, said: “The NFU has been calling on supermarkets to relax their standards because we do not want perfectly good fruit and vegetables rejected.”
Anti-waste campaigner Tristram Stuart says up to 40 per cent of crops are wasted for cosmetic reasons. He said: “Supermarkets should be doing this every year.”
