if so up to an estimated 52% of harvests that go bad,
before reaching consumers could be saved, Stixfresh are made with 100% organic materials and contain a
mixture of ionized Sodium Chloride and beeswax, which helps slow down the bacterial
activity in the fruit, and thus delaying the ripening process, Stixfresh
founder Zhafri Zainudin says that he came up with the idea for the stickers
four years ago, after visiting a friend who operated a fruit stall. The man
complained about losing money every day due to spoiled fruits, but seemed
resigned, as he knew that there was no way to stop nature from taking its
course. However, the Malaysian entrepreneur had another idea. “It got me to
thinking. Maybe I couldn’t stop nature, but could I slow it down?” Zainudin
writes on his company’s website,
the Malaysian businessman partnered with Selangor
university Universiti Putra Malaysia, research institutions and agencies
such as Mardi and Standard and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia, and
more recently with Bogor University and University of South Australia, to
develop and test his stickers. It took him three years to perfect the
manufacturing process and efficacy of his innovative product,
originally, Stixfresh stickers were only used to prolong the shelf-life of mangos, but the company later realized that they also worked on other fruits of approximately the same size and with similar texture, like avocadoes, papaya, dragon fruit, star fruit, apples, and pears,
according to Stixfresh, their revolutionary stickers not only
slow down the ripening process, but also inhibit the development of molds on
fruits, the Malaysian company claims that there are many products
that promise to preserve the freshness of fruits for longer, but their stickers
are the only solution that uses 100% natural ingredients. the company
insists that the stickers are completely safe, so safe in fact, that you can
actually eat them, what a great way to save so much food that would normally go to waste.
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