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Dissolving food stickers also wash your fruit

Dissolving food stickers also wash your fruit
Fruitwash labels dissolve into organic fruit soap (image: Amron Exptl.)
Fruitwash labels dissolve into organic fruit soap (image: Amron Exptl.)
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Fruitwash labels dissolve into organic fruit soap (image: Amron Exptl.)
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Fruitwash labels dissolve into organic fruit soap (image: Amron Exptl.)
Fruitwash labels dissolve into organic fruit soap (image: Amron Exptl.)
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Fruitwash labels dissolve into organic fruit soap (image: Amron Exptl.)

New York based electrical engineer and designer Scott Amron has come up with an idea that could transform the way industries label fruit and vegetables. You may not pay much attention to that fruit sticker on your apple or orange - though it's often frustrating to remove - and it usually just ends up in the trash. However, Amron is a man who has put considerable thought into that sticker, creating the Fruitwash label. Just as the name suggests, the new label dissolves into organic fruit soap that helps remove water-resistant wax, pesticides and fungicides.

"I've always been discontent with fruit labels and felt they could do more than just display product info and be difficult to peel off," Amron told Gizmag. "We buy, wash and eat fruit. So, the wash step was the next thing the label should help with."

Whilst the labels ingredients are currently being kept secret, they are designed to "outlast the fruit they label," says Amron. The process of adding water and rubbing the label triggers the dissolving action, which transforms the label into a fruit wash. Alternatively, the stickers can be peeled off and thrown away.

"[The] best thing is the labels help make the fruit cleaner," says Amron. "And, there's no label to peel off and throw away unless you choose to peel the label off and throw it away."

Amron Experimental is currently selling a 10 percent stake in the Fruitwash Label Intellectual Property (patents) and hopes to bring the labels to market within the next 6-9 months.

3 comments
3 comments
Brutal McKillins
It\'s about time someone reacted to my inner thoughts.. hate those stickers!
Marke
Brilliant!
I hate eating the half of the sticker I can\'t peel off.
AND I\'m usually too lazy to wash fruit.
THis would force me to wash it, and greatly increase the effectiveness of doing so.
Prediction - these lables will be ubiquitous in 2 or 3 years time.
YukonJack
Now if they will do something about the bad taste of insecticides on celery.