16. In the United States alone, 40 percent of food gets tossed every year—and that amounts to $162 billion in waste annually, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. That sounds bad enough on it’s own, but when you also consider that 820 million people went hungry in 2019, it’s absolutely maddening. Advertisement. Worldwide, the amount of food that’s produced but goes uneaten is nearing a staggering 50 percent.And while we know that meat produces the worst, most destructive food waste for the planet, fruits and vegetables, sadly, don’t get a pass.. A new study from Karlstad University, in Sweden, measured the country’s supermarket food waste, then extrapolated the environmental impact of that waste. This can serve 58,064,516,129 meals using the national average amount spent on a meal, $2.79. British households throw away 4.4m tonnes of edible food a year, estimates suggest - and bread is the most wasted provision of all. This may explain why a reported 4% of all cheese produced in any given year ends up stolen, which makes this delicious dairy product the most commonly stolen food … A new study from Penn State revealed that U.S. households waste about a third of the food they purchased every year. Siegel warns that any hard-boiled eggs left at room temperature for longer than two hours should be tossed. Shutterstock. Food experts say there is growing awareness that governments cannot effectively fight hunger, or climate change, without reducing food waste. And to make matters worse, all this food waste is also feeding the climate crisis. If you factor those in, the report estimates a third of all food gets tossed annually. This was followed by dairy at 17 … Cooked Vegetables. To make sure food gets eaten and save prep time, she suggests eating frozen leftovers soon, as in the following week. Of the 22 food groups studied, fruits and vegetables were wasted most, accounting for 39 percent of the total waste. Report looks at what is in the fridge, what gets tossed out. Food … But why? The results were similar to … Cooked vegetables can be stored in the refrigerator for three to seven days in an airtight container. That's almost 20 percent more food than the United States tossed out in 2000, 50 percent more than in 1990, and nearly three times what Americans discarded in 1960, when the … Some of the biggest reasons given for throwing food out were appearance, odor, and confusion about the dates on the food labels.