Food expiration dates don’t mean what you think - Carolyn Beans

Cheers to people like me who have insanely hypersensitive tummy

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As a grocery store meat department worker, the food we have to throw away is depressing. Perfectly good hotdogs by the cart-ful have to go, but grey steak only gets marked down 2 bucks. It's not even good for business

America 😅

Is nothing in 3th world murica porperly managed? That entire country is run by money..

As long as my bread isn't moldy, stale,wet or have a weird smell I eat it.

I will now eat the Last name of Carolyn. But in all seriousness, this was so entertaining and educating for me. Thanks again for your videos!

Why this video
my teacher say learn all off video this video a bit bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All too often the date on the packaging is removed with acetone and redated. I quit over that and reported it although nothing got done

This is so eye opening.

pls, make more videos with binary options

Its funny how I believed that the EXP date was the actual EXP date, but my Asian parents would actually taste it before determining if it was expired or not.

This totally ignores all the left overs that get thrown away. I'm disgusted by the amount of people I meet in this world that refuse to finish later what they didn't the first time.

Every college student should see this video

I've always kept foods beyond the expiration dates specifically canned foods, condiments, and dried pastas. People would give me a hard time....I'm glad that this video exists. 😊

I keep things until it’s moldy, smells weird, tastes weird….obvious things like that

I hate wasting food. Why do americans do this?

Tutorial on how to food poisoning yourself.

Love this, but I REALLY wish there was a better emphasis on composting and how significantly much better it is for the earth and all of us than putting food waste into a landfill. Unlike a lot of recycling, composting is actually hugely effective; it keeps valuable organic matter out of landfills and puts it back into the ecosystem to create new food.

I always buy one brand of cereal and I can tell the difference if its been sitting on my shelf for a few months. It has yet to expire yet it taste stale

I am from France and during Covid, near my place where I live, I discovered this association that was picking up "expired" food about to be thrown away by shops. And then they would distribute it to those in need like students, single parents, retired people etc...

We got tons of bread daily, which was not exactly fresh but still good to eat, dry food like pasta or crisps, a lot of drinks too. Many shops are fined on their waste weight so they are reluctant to throw away and instead stock the unsold food as long as they can. Upon being able to donate to association, they avoid the fine so it is a good thing overall.

A lot of shops still throw away food and even make then impossible to recover by spraying detergent on them, to deter people from picking them up and always coming around, and/or to avoid legal issues if someone ate the thrown away food and sued them.

So amazing and important video ❤❤ this is perfection ❤❤❤

How can you make an animation like this? Any answers?

Thanks for this informative video i just find it really informative. Its really important to make sure that we don't waste food and yes this vicious cycle of expiry date is to be eliminated. Keep up the good work and Planet ayurveda wishes best for your channel

Just go straight to the point.
Ha!

or else manufacturers can just mention the date till they're fresh as well as mentioning the date till they're totally unsafe to eat, this can prevent food waste to some extent atleast.

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sure thing americans need a whole video about this

Rely on instinct. Dates wont help.

Since i live a " refrigerator-free " life. I stoped throughing away food. I only buy exactly what i can and want to eat but not " maybe " i'd like to eat later.

Asians, nothing to see here. We eat good foods.

I own a restaurant owner in the US. Date labeling is super frustrating! I have been operating for over 30 years and we have always received high praise from our regulating authorities. We understand, as most people do, the basic signs of telling where a food is safe. So we label our own products with dates we understand as safe. If they ever exceed that date we use the sight and smell test.

Hotmax is a popular supermarket in China, it's selling foods which is near " use by "date labels, it's cheaper than normal supermarket. I think it's a good way to prevent food waste, and government reduces unnecessary expenses by stimulating consumption, which may be easier to promote and implement than donations.

Not believing in waste, I've consumed things supposedly more than a year past expiration, and they were completely fine. Conservely, have had to toss things that were supposedly "fresh" produce, only a few days old. I have to rely more on appearance, smell and taste than on supposed expiration dates. Things that can be cooked can be trusted a bit more.

The federal government should mandate that food expiration dates be based on safety, not on shelf management desires or optimal taste. Lower income people especially need accurate information for health protection, without any unnecessary waste.

Inaccurate expiration dates also interfere with charity food donation, because recipient organizations would be obligated to toss anything past "expiration", regardless of its actual quality.

Food producers should also realize that people who are trying to build up a reserve stock for times of potential crisis are looking for the longest expiration dates, so the producers will lose those sales with artificially short expiration dates.

depends what you call waste. if you bury them in compost to grow new food its not waste

We have use by and best before in the UK and it's useful. But always fallback to your senses in any of the dates expire (assuming you have good senses!)

American are filled with food look at other country

I never use the date and often just eat stuff unless it is VERY obvious that it is bad (like mold)

"When in doubt, throw it out".

Dried spices you can eat decades past the date and not even notice the difference. At worst you might need to use a little more.

This all goes out the window when you suffer from contamination OCD and the dates on packaging are a demand rather than a suggestion, even a couple of days prior to them. It's not a fun time, even if you know it doesn't make rational sense.

Anybody that throws food a way because of the date on the packing rather than assessing the food is a simpleton spako

This video :
Me : Dies from eating molded bread.

Hm, debatable. Far too often I’ve had milk expire way BEFORE its expiration date, by a week or more. So Ima continue trusting those expiration dates lol. They’re there for a reason… you are ALWAYS better off safe than sorry 🤷‍♂️

There must be more of these rules that restaurants or Supermarkts donate their left overs to hungry people.

Great video.