When she was on a trip to India, Kavita Shukla accidentally drank some tap water. To prevent her from getting ill, her grandmother concocted a home remedy spiced tea. Starting with a middle school science project and following it up with years of research, Shukla found a new and remarkable use for her grandmother’s spices, and found an uncanny way of keeping food fresh! By infusing the spices into paper, then putting that sheet in with fresh produce, it was able to keep produce fresh for 2-4 times longer than normal. She found that some of the spices in the tea had an element which stopped the growth of fungus and bacteria. Many people do not have access to refrigeration, and FreshPaper is a safe and inexpensive way to make fresh produce last longer. With no harmful chemicals, FreshPaper is made with edible, organic, botanical extracts. To see if her product would actually work, she handed it out to people at farmers markets, and the results proved to be true for them too. Her company targets those in most need: people in developing countries as well as food banks and pantries. To learn more about her product, watch Kavita Shukla’s TED talk here.