According to Jud Cummins, Director of Category and Product Management at Vitamix, foodcycling is the process of decreasing and reutilizing our own food waste. “The Eco 5 is effectively keeping food waste out of our landfills and using it to nourish plants,” explains Jud. But how?
“As a FoodCycler, the Eco 5 uses a process of drying, grinding, and cooling to reduce our food waste to a tenth of its original volume,” he describes. It sounds fancy, but couldn’t be simpler. Using the Eco 5 is as easy as adding food scraps to a processing bucket (with the largest capacity on the market). Once it’s full, you just close the lid and push the start button. The Eco 5 then monitors conditions inside, and makes adjustments to the environment and blade direction, transforming food waste into plant food.
