--- title: Food Powder World Hunger: This Product Fights Global Hunger description: A team of grad students has teamed up to fight world hunger by spraying nearly-expired produce and turning it into powder. canonical: https://time.com/3958489/food-powder-world-hunger/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-15T13:24:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:15:51.914Z article:section: Health og:title: Food Powder World Hunger: This Product Fights Global Hunger og:description: A team of grad students has teamed up to fight world hunger by spraying nearly-expired produce and turning it into powder. og:url: https://time.com/3958489/food-powder-world-hunger/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted25496174c5543e/69885ae60a4a22d9d89c526d/fopo-food-powder.jpg?branch=production&width=770&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 770 og:image:height: 433 og:image:alt: fopo food powder og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Food Powder World Hunger: This Product Fights Global Hunger twitter:description: A team of grad students has teamed up to fight world hunger by spraying nearly-expired produce and turning it into powder. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted25496174c5543e/69885ae60a4a22d9d89c526d/fopo-food-powder.jpg?branch=production&width=770&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Powder Aims To Solve World Hunger > Sponsored content. 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Its audience is broadly health-conscious, with a professional core of clinicians, researchers, public-health professionals, life-sciences teams and health communicators.  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Jul 15, 2015 1:24 PM UTC  FoPo  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Jul 15, 2015 1:24 PM UTC A team of grad students has teamed up to fight world hunger by spraying nearly-expired produce and turning it into powder to extend its shelf life by two years. The people behind the product, called [FoPo Food Powder](http://www.tffchallenge.com/team/2014/fopo-food-powder/), say they will buy produce that can no longer be sold in stores and turn it into a freeze-dried product to be sold as a nutritious offering to consumers. Governments may also want to use the product for disaster relief or military operations, the creators say. “\[We are\] not into using a new product or new technology, \[but\] creating value out of the inefficiency of the food system,” FoPo co-founder Gerald Marin told [_Mashable_](http://mashable.com/2015/07/15/fopo-food-powder/). “The innovation of our business is that we are getting the expired fruits and vegetables.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3958489/food-powder-world-hunger/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3958489/food-powder-world-hunger/"},"headline":"This Powder Aims To Solve World Hunger","datePublished":"2015-07-15T13:24:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:15:51.914Z","description":"The powder relies on nearly-expired produce","url":"https://time.com/3958489/food-powder-world-hunger/","keywords":["Public Health"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted25496174c5543e/69885ae60a4a22d9d89c526d/fopo-food-powder.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted25496174c5543e/69885ae60a4a22d9d89c526d/fopo-food-powder.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"fopo food powder","caption":"fopo food powder","creditText":"FoPo","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/public-health/","name":"Public Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3958489/food-powder-world-hunger/","name":"This Powder Aims To Solve World Hunger"}}]}] ```