The amount of food thrown away evcry day is staggering.
While this article is UK-based, it still has value for the rest of the world.
Because of arcane rules and regulations, many places toss out good because they have exceeded a “to be sold by” date. And those same rules often bar them from donating them to food banks or charitable entities.
And the rich nations often toss what the poorer nations are begging for.
More than 720 million eggs are needlessly thrown away every year in the UK
Supermarkets have begun to remove best-before dates to tackle the problem
As best-before dates are not about safety but quality unlike the use-by dates
And, this provides a way for you to determine whether your eggs are still fresh.
Want to know if an egg is fresh? Simply put it, uncracked, in a bowl of water.
If it floats it is full of air which suggests it is no longer good to eat.
When eggs start to go off, the contents produce gas. The egg is still good to eat if it stands on one end, above right, at the bottom of the bowl.
If it sinks to the bottom and lies flat on its side, it is very fresh.
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