The average Canadian household discards $761 worth of food every year, with one third of that total—$246—stemming from confusion about how ‘best before’ dates work, a new study suggests.
A recent national report published by food marketplace app Too Good To Go in collaboration with Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab highlights Canadians’ lack of understanding about best before dates and the resulting food waste.
The findings indicate that misreading or placing excessive importance on best before dates has emerged as a contributing factor in unnecessary waste at a time when food affordability is a major issue in the country, says Professor Sylvain Charlebois, director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University….