New study estimates Canadians wasted $500M in food due to ‘shelflation’
problems essentially,” explains Sylvain Charlebois, Dalhousie University’s Agri-food Analytics Lab director.focusing on how Canadians are finding themselves throwing away more food and making their grocery bills even more expensive than they already are.“Being in Canada it’s definitely an issue. We receive produce very late here and it’s picked way earlier right? I shop for produce every week and still it doesn’t last throughout the week most of the time.
For the first, time they asked more than 1,500 Canadians if they were noticing issues related to the quality or freshness of products they were buying. Only 42 per cent of those surveyed in Nutrition experts say you can still eat healthy without sweating expiration dates, suggesting tips like putting your berries in glass jars to preserve them longer or rinsing fruit with water and vinegar.
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