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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Lifestyle
Malvika Padin

Food you can safely eat past its expiration date, according to experts

Every food you buy has a shelf life, and the packaging for almost all these food items is marked with an expiration date.

There is a common misconception that any food not eaten by the date given on the packaging has immediately gone bad and needs to be tossed out.

But expiration dates are actually just guidelines for you to have a rough idea about when the peak quality of specific food items are, rather than how safe it is to eat.

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