"No question!"

Should you eat expired food?

When can food no longer be eaten? It is advisable to judge the product in question by sight, smell and taste - and not just by the best-before date.

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The cabaret artist, author and expert on human nature Stefan Vögel answers questions that others don't even dare to ask. This time it's about the question of whether food is still edible after the best-before date.

I have a good friend who doesn't eat any food beyond the best-before date. Now the term means that we are not dealing with the sudden death of the food at this point, but merely with a guarantee from the producer: that his product must be in perfect condition by then or he will otherwise offer compensation (who knows: maybe the meat was lying in the sun somewhere for a short time and was already bad when it reached the store; even that exists, but I don't tell my friend that, otherwise he won't buy anything else).