Food businesses usually choose a 'best-before' date well before the time when the food would be expected to deteriorate and spoil.
A conservative 'best-before' date is designed to encourage you to eat the product while it is fresh and at its best, so you should consider 'best-before' dates as a guide only. Frozen and canned products, in particular, tend to keep their quality for some time after the 'best-before' date.
Within reason, provided the food looks and smells as you would expect, it should be safe to eat, even if the 'best-before' date has passed. Keep an eye on the ‘use-by’ or ‘best-before’ dates on the food in your cupboards.
Don’t eat any food that is past its ‘use-by’ date, even if it looks and smells okay becaus e it can make you sick.
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