Modern food distribution runs on automated systems that scan and approve shipments. If a product isn’t in the database — new variety, irregular shape, uncommon origin — the system flags or rejects it.

Result: truckloads of perfectly edible food get turned away and wasted because a database doesn’t have a record for it.

The more we automate logistics, the more we create failure modes that didn’t exist before. A human inspector would just look at the food and decide. The algorithm needs a SKU.