Shelf life of common food items

By : Swati Sani | 2 Comments | On : October 8, 2015 | Category : Kitchen Talk, Tips and Tricks Tags: best before, sell by, shelf life of common food items

Throwing away food hurts and is wasteful. Do you know the shelf life of common food items that you store? How often we come across stuff in our kitchen shelf that has gone bad or can not be used because the best before date has passed and you don’t want to risk being ill.

Do you know that the shopkeepers have a “sell by” dates and the “best before” dates are actually based on these sell by dates? So how do you know if the food items you have in your refrigerator and pantry are still good. What if you had a cheat sheet that gives you an idea as to how long food will actually last? Well, with the help of the website StillTasty which collects data from the USDA, the FDA, the CDC and the food manufactures, you can now know in one glance the shelf life of food items. Here’s a cheat sheet

 

Infographic and information from Business Insider

Some dishes that stay good in the fridge up to 5 days

 

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