7 essential facts about best before dates on food
We’re all obsessed with checking them, but how accurate are they?
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We’re all obsessed with checking them, but how accurate are they?
A lot of supermarket bosses say they regularly ignore food expiry dates. Do you?
A pilot project in the States wants to convert fruit and veg just past their ‘best before’ date into healthy and cheap takeaways. Would that work here?
New research by safefood shows that almost a third of consumers believe ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ dates on food labels mean the same thing.
A third of people said that they ignore use-by dates as long as the food looks and smells ‘okay’.