These tips will help you pick the freshest bread at your grocery store.
Some come printed with dates, prices, or indecipherable numerical codes, while others are blank.
What do these tags tell us about the bread they enclose?
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(Spoiler: Youll have to do a little investigating of your own!)
it’s possible for you to see an example of this color coding onSnopes, a private fact-checking website.
Unfortunately, its not that simple.
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This color coding is not an industry standard, nor is it regulated.
Also, it assumes that bakeries deliver five days a weekmost dont.
Because of this, theres no guarantee that you could locate the freshest bread using this coding system.
Many stores rotate their inventory every two to three days so that the baked goods are always fresh.
I thought it was the date the bread was baked!
And that is how I found out that I was always buying bread on the day it expired.
With this newfound information, I headed straight to the kitchen toslice and freeze my loafbefore it became stale.
The more you know, the more you reduce food waste and save money!
