It's not you. Date labels on food make no sense.

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There are so many different kinds of date labels. Creme fraiche.

I dont even know what creme fraiche is. Oh thats something else.

It can be REALLY confusing to know what all these labels indicate. A lot of times you just throw away food thats past whatever date you see.

But youre actually throwing away tons of perfectly good food because many times, these dates don't mean what you think they mean.

Say you have a carton of eggs with a label that sayssell by January 1st.” If theyre in your fridge past that date, you might throw them away thinking theyre

probably bad. Butsell byis just a label for retailers to know when its time to take food off

their shelves, so they can manage their inventory. It actually doesnt tell you anything about the safety of those eggs.

And thats not the only misleading label on your food. Part of the problem is that there are way too many labels to begin with.

Walmart, one of the biggest food retailers in the country, surveyed its label suppliers and found a total of 47 different kinds of date labels on their products.

Almost all of these labels indicate the quality of food. Manufacturers put down dates to suggest when food will be at its best.

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