TUCSON, Ariz. – A University of Arizona professor has invented a sticker that can tell consumers if a fruit or vegetable is ripe. The stickers will be available to growers next year and should make ...

During my broke college days, I worked as a grocery checker. Surprisingly, it was a job I really enjoyed—I got to talk to all kinds of people and marvel at the weird things they bought. (Like the guy ...

Have you ever really noticed the little stickers on your apples and oranges? Today, many stickers in the U.S. feature barcodes or a puzzling string of numbers. But around the world, fruit stickers ...

As a guy who can’t hear the difference between knocking on a ripe melon, knocking on an under-ripe melon and knocking on my own ass, a “ripeness” indicator sticker on fruit would be awesome. This ...

If you're frustrated by those pesky stickers on supermarket produce, this may change your tune. Did you know that those stickers aren't just for the checkers' use? The International Federation for ...

You'd think there would be a better way to label and identify fruit than those ubiquitous little stickers, but so far, that age-old solution has been a bit...well, sticky. Scientists at the ...

Tired of trying to wash that weird sticky residue of your fruit that the stickers leave behind? Well, one company is trying to solve the sticker problem by actually laser etching logos onto fruit.