• Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    I’m no expert, but I did watch a minidocumentary that explained that these best by dates are mostly arbitrary aside from perishable foods.

    For some products they’ll have taste testers rate the same product packaged at different times from 1-10 with 10 being factory fresh, and when it drops below an average of 7, that’s the date they put on the packaging

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      3 months ago

      Yeah but this kind of salt they only taste test every half million years or so, so the expiration dates cant be trusted to be that precise.