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The global carbon footprint made from food waste has reached the double total amount of greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. In a recent research, In the European Union, they wasted approximately 90 million tons of food every year. If we do not take any action to suppress such a situation, the figure of food waste might attain to 126 million metric tons by 2020(European Commission, 2010, cited in The House of Lords, 2014). For this reason, reducing food waste is an urgent obligation. In order to solve the problem of food waste, people can write a list before purchase and choose food from a price reduction zone or buy food from the expiring item store to reduce food waste. Especially for the fruit in the discount zone, they mostly look poor, but still in the shelf period, they are still can eat and rich in