食物过期 能吃吗？

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🎧 So when you throw out food, food that's clearly rotten, bad, sitting at the bottom of the refrigerator for six months, okay, you know to throw that away.   But what about some of the other food, the questionable food?  Most of us use the date on the food label to determine whether to keep it or toss it. But experts say Americans throw out billions of pounds of perfectly good food every year because of those confusing labels.   The sell-by date on a package is intended for the retailer, not for you, and it winds up misleading a lot of us.   Many dates printed on the food we buy are actually meaningless when it comes to freshness or safety.   Even use-by dates or best-before dates are misleading and encourage us to throw away good food before it's time.   One food scientist said you just cannot tie shelf life to a date. If the food looks rotten and it smells bad, sure, throw it away. But just because it's past the date on the package doesn't necessarily mean it's unsafe.   An ………………………………