{"id":18735,"date":"2025-11-06T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=18735"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:45:11","slug":"most-people-dont-know-this-about-best-before-dates-heres-what-it-really-means-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=18735","title":{"rendered":"Most People Don\u2019t Know This About \u2018Best Before\u2019 Dates \u2014 Here\u2019s What It Really Means"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every year, millions of cans and perfectly good food items get thrown away because people misunderstand one simple label:&nbsp;<em>\u201cBest Before.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The truth? It\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>not an expiration date<\/strong>.<br>\u201cBest Before\u201d or \u201cBest By\u201d simply means the food is at its&nbsp;<strong>peak freshness or flavor<\/strong>&nbsp;before that date \u2014&nbsp;<em>not<\/em>&nbsp;that it\u2019s unsafe to eat afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the can is&nbsp;<strong>undamaged, not bloated, leaking, or rusted<\/strong>, and the contents look and smell normal, it\u2019s usually still safe. Manufacturers use \u201cBest Before\u201d for quality, not safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So next time you see that date, don\u2019t toss it immediately.<br>Smell it, check it, and use common sense \u2014 your wallet (and the planet) will thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, millions of cans and perfectly good food items get thrown away because people misunderstand one simple label:&nbsp;\u201cBest Before.\u201d The truth? It\u2019s&nbsp;not an expiration date.\u201cBest Before\u201d&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18736,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18735\/revisions\/18736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}