> the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded two research grants to Apeel Sciences in 2012 and 2015, totaling less than $1.1 million. To put this into broader context, the Foundation awarded over $7.3 billion in grants to a wide variety of public and private organizations during those two years across different areas and projects.

> No control of our company was given up in exchange for any of that grant funding, and we have not had any ongoing relationship with the Foundation in more than a decade.

That being said, Wikipedia notes the following about citric acid:

> Long-term or repeated consumption may cause erosion of tooth enamel.

So that's kind of interesting to me if the idea is for it to be consumed regularly on a bunch of produce.