{"id":74569,"date":"2023-02-28T14:39:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T19:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?p=74569"},"modified":"2023-02-28T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T20:32:13","slug":"misinterpretations-of-use-by-dates-with-joan-salge-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/misinterpretations-of-use-by-dates-with-joan-salge-blake\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it safe to eat food that&#8217;s past its &#8216;use by&#8217; date? Experts including Joan Salge Blake weigh in."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(02\/27\/2023,\u00a0<em>Yahoo Life<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/Joan-Salge-Blake-Head-shot-2023-478x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\" wp-image-74500 alignleft\" width=\"151\" height=\"201\" \/><strong>Expert quote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clinical Professor of Nutrition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/profile\/joan-salge-blake-ms-rd-ldn\/\">Joan Salge Blake<\/a> explains that consumers are routinely &#8220;misinterpreting&#8221; these dates and &#8220;inadvertently tossing good food into the trash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is causing Americans to needlessly throw away about one third of the foods they are purchasing and waste over $160 billion on food that could be safely consumed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/safe-to-eat-food-past-use-by-date-193440427.html\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(02\/27\/2023,\u00a0Yahoo Life) Expert quote: Clinical Professor of Nutrition Joan Salge Blake explains that consumers are routinely &#8220;misinterpreting&#8221; these dates and &#8220;inadvertently tossing good food into the trash.&#8221; &#8220;This is causing Americans to needlessly throw away about one third of the foods they are purchasing and waste over $160 billion on food that could be safely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21410,"featured_media":74570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5144],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74589,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74569\/revisions\/74589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}