Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain

Re:Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain by benj111 on Friday April 19, 2019 @03:29AM (#19697719)

If you bought some milk in date that was lumpy and stank, would you drink it? Conversely if it were one day out of date but smelt and looked fine, would you throw it away?

Personally I use use by dates (I don't really check best before dates) as a shopping tool, so I buy thing that will last the time required, then rely on my senses.

Canned goods have best before dates on for heavens sake, I'd happily eat a 10 year old can of X, assuming it's none bulging.

Cooked rice is the only thing I'm aware of that can kill you after cooking, whilst still appearing ok.

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Re:Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain by DanBC on Friday April 19, 2019 @04:45AM (#19697979)

In this post you confuse "use by" with "best before", even though the difference is clearly described in the linked article.

USE BY is product safety information. The risk increases after the use by date.

BEST BEFORE is product quality information. There's not much risk but the taste and nutrition will degrade over time.

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Re:Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain by benj111 on Friday April 19, 2019 @02:09PM (#19701641)

I didn't confuse. Although I did change from what my parent mentioned.

Although it would be nice to have the time to check best befores and use bys of everything I put in my trolley, in practice its basically meat and milk, purely to check that they will last until I want to use them.

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