Rejection

[m_2666]

What mistake did i make over here!!
all my photos got rejected 😞

(& can i delete the NOT ACCEPTED files)

[RALPH_L]

First of all, it is way too dark and the light brown area at the bottom is disturbing. 
No, you cannot delete the rejected thumbnails.

[Abambo]

Food fotographie is a carefully orchestrated setting. It rarely works as snapshots. As @RALPH_L said, the asset is to dark, but there is also that disturbing background. And the colours do not seam to be right. There is probably too much saturation.

[Abambo]

(& can i delete the NOT ACCEPTED files)

By @m_2666

I have thumbnails from before 7 years in my account for rejected assets. Those will remind me for ever about my failures. It's not an issue, it's only a thumbnail picture, and quite interesting to see your evolution as a stock contributor.

[daniellei4510]

Uninteresting composition (square format usually is). Check your histogram for exposure issues going forward.

[Nancy OShea]

For comparison, this is what you're competing with in Stock inventory. 

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=mashed+potatoes

Notice the well lit scenes, proper focus, pleasing presentation & camera distance from subject. 

Food photography is carefully staged to look delicious. It doesn't happen that way randomly.