Hier erfahren Sie, warum Mindesthaltbarkeitsdaten die Kanadier Milliarden an vermeidbaren Lebensmittelabfällen kosten
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/heres-why-best-before-dates-are-costing-canadians-billions-in-avoidable-food-waste/
Hier erfahren Sie, warum Mindesthaltbarkeitsdaten die Kanadier Milliarden an vermeidbaren Lebensmittelabfällen kosten
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/heres-why-best-before-dates-are-costing-canadians-billions-in-avoidable-food-waste/
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Learn how to tell if food is actually spoiled. The date is never the right way to do this. Smell everything as you open it, before you use it.
Smell it – does it smell like it normally does? *Exactly the same* Are there any sour notes? An acrid edge to it?
Texture – is it the same texture? Has liquid moved in a weird way since you last saw it in the container? Is it fuzzy? Is it slimy?
Ask a friend – does it look and smell good to them? Sometimes people have different thresholds for what they can smell.
Taste it – if still in doubt, put a small piece on your tongue and actually evaluate it. Spit it out and rinse your mouth out if it’s not.
Food lasts a long time if you are mindful of how things get contaminated. Don’t touch food you don’t have to in storage or checking it (it’ll go bad faster with grubby paws) and don’t open or leave them open containers more than you have to. Use temperatures to ensure food is safely cooked.
One of the most freeing things in terms of food safety is watch a video of a cheese aging room and how the makers will eat directly from the wheels despite the colours on display growth-wise.
Oh I know this one. Its because people are morons and cant tell if something is actually spoiled or not.
My aunt has refugees that stay with her and they go to the food banks. Almost every couple that has stayed with her has thrown food out saying it’s expired it’s inedible. It infuriates me because there are so many people who would benefit from that. I buy food expiring because it’s on sale or half off!
Kraft is the absolute worst company for putting short dates on their products. I stopped using all Kraft products because of this.
Everything in Canada is a scam. They stamp the dates on the food to protect consumers from spoiled food, but consumers don’t need protection from that, we’re being robbed by corporations to the point of homelessness and starvation.
That’s because we allow way too many preservatives in our food and don’t want producers to bother with proper stress/stability testing data to get a scientifically determined expiry date.
I sort of laughed when my sea salt had an expiration date on it
I find that products (especially meat) expire before the actual expiry date sticker put on the meat
Don’t be afraid to shop at liquidation stores with groceries. Many of them sell food at a huge discount that is past the ‚best before‘ date but is not expired. They are up front about it, of course, and will refund if the food is actually off (at least the places I’ve been).
For my part, I wouldn’t want to do away with dating on food – but perhaps a „prepared on“ date with a „expected shelf life of two years unopened“ statement rather than a best-before.
Anyone who’s every cleared out the cupboards of an elderly relative and found 20-30 year old pantry staples will understand why a date of some kind is necessary. Otherwise you’re trying to figure out if the packaging is just 90s aesthetic or is actually *from* the 90s…
And my parents still have foods in the cabinets they bought when I was living there like 15 years ago 😭 they won’t let me throw stuff out cuz „it’s still good“. If it’s still good, why won’t they just eat it instead of finely aging it? Lol
I had a friend once discard a batch of cooked onion rings (at the party) because it “sat on a table for 3 hours in room temperature”. When I asked wtf, others also have said “yeah, dude, it’s gone bad now”. I almost flipped the table.
I get food safety and follow it, too. My stomach is actually quite sensitive. But holy guacamole, let’s not be paranoid.