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Food expiration dates don’t mean what you think - Carolyn Beans

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Countries around the world waste huge amounts of food every year: roughly a fifth of food items in the US are tossed because consumers aren’t sure how to interpret expiration labels. But most groceries are still perfectly safe to eat past their expiration dates. If the dates on our food don’t tell us that something’s gone bad, what do they tell us? Carolyn Beans shares how to prevent food waste.

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  • Educator Carolyn Beans
  • Director Anton Bogaty
  • Narrator Alexandra Panzer
  • Music Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio
  • Sound Designer Chengqing Zhu, cAMP Studio
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they speaking us dont waste food ; how to save food ; usa weast 398000 tons of food .

we should save food ; count any thing for person for example we need eat pasta and we are 3, 100g pasta for each other ; in egypt if we waste we will never put food in garbage we sell it for checkin farm

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i hope someday we could do so. Most of the people in the third world thow food away, i think, because no one tells them that stomch is small, even if you try to eat more.

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