'Unloved' soup
French retailer Monoprix has launched two organic soups made from “unloved” vegetables too “twisted, too small or too big” for retail shelves, which it says will help fight against food waste.
Two gourmet and fair-trade recipes are available: "spicy carrot soup" and "zucchini and split pea soup". The vegetables come from sorting operations in Provence.
They are produced and harvested within a radius of 150 km maximum around the workshop that prepares these two artisanal soups.
Monoprix was the first large-scale retailer to offer organically grown products on its shelves in 1990.