Salt extracted from seawater is basically a million years old product. Yet is there an expiration date on the package you standing on the shelf in the cupboard. Expiration of maybe just two months. Lentils, rice, coffee, pasta and a lot of other long-lasting products are also equipped with a date marking 'best before'.
First Day of Judgment embossed news in the new report from the UN climate panel IPCC, describing the challenges ahead for the world's food production population prospects in the face of rises by climate change and escalating population growth.
So the good news that we Danes in the past five years have been better not to feed our garbage cans. And then finally - the new political trial balloon population prospects from EU politicians to remove the 'best before' date labels from certain types of food.
And it's good that EU politicians will reduce food waste by the long-lasting products - but the EU's own figures indicate that most of the food waste is not done by the old packages of rice or coffee - but instead of fruit, vegetables, mejeripridukter and bread. Yes, rice and pasta smoking shame too, but only when cooked, because people consistently cook too much food.
A political debate on food waste put particular focus on the problem, but the solution must be thought through thoroughly, and efforts should be concentrated where the batter something. And maybe you should take a look in a completely different direction:
'Last anvendelselsdato' is used on short shelf life foods such as fresh meat and fresh fish and the like. Ideally one should not eat food after the end of the 'use population prospects by date'.
In contrast, 'best before' date is set to the ambient foods like pasta, rice, chocolate, crackers, cereal, etc.. Even DVFA writes on his website population prospects that you can easily eat food that has exceeded the 'best before', it's just the taste that will change slightly. 'Best before' In other words 'toxic after'.
In addition, the confusion over the date markings. Althing food analysis shows that three out of four Danes do not find the 'best before' labels particularly understandable and would like to see the wording of the place was 'best before'. Which, incidentally, is already being used in food in particular Sweden and England.
Perhaps population prospects the first step would be to change the 'best before' to 'best before' and that concept was more understandable and logical. Here you could already save a lot of Danish households' food waste and confusion. Especially if we go out with something more specific population prospects information about using common sense, before throwing a package two days old cornflakes out.
This is not about eating spoiled food, but rather to use common sense, taste and smell of food. Something like our grandparents and oldemødres generation did as a matter of course, and something that the current generation has forgotten - where the date frightened teenager throw an entire liter of yogurt as a precaution, even if the yogurt still have two days to maturity.
Selina Juul Stop Wasting Food is a consumer movement which fights against food waste. Food waste costs the Danes 16 billion a year - and we are fighting to stop. Stop Wasting Food is backed by thousands of consumers and some major politicians and famous food people. See more at: http://www.stopspildafmad.dk View my complete profile
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