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A woman in a plaid shirt closely inspects two avocados while shopping in the produce section of a grocery store. The image, featured on FoodFacts.org, relates to the debate over the necessity of best-before dates, highlighting consumer decision-making and food waste reduction through personal judgment and visual inspection of freshness.
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Food Systems

Are ‘best before’ dates necessary? Understanding food labels and reducing waste

While much of the industry maintains that best before dates are helpful, anti-waste campaigners argue that they encourage people to throw out still-fresh foods
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A beach heavily littered with plastic waste, including bottles, containers, and other debris, stretches alongside a scenic shoreline with lush green cliffs and calm ocean waves. The image, featured in a FoodFacts.org article, emphasizes the environmental toll of food packaging and highlights the urgent need for sustainable alternatives to reduce plastic pollution in marine ecosystems.
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Trapped in a plastic tide: the devastating impact of food packaging and the fight for change

Plastic food packaging contributes significantly to pollution, microplastic contamination, and health risks, but innovations like bioplastics and global action offer hope for reducing plastic waste
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A group of smiling people stands in front of a Food Stash Foundation truck featuring colorful, illustrated produce and community-themed artwork, suggesting a shared mission focused on food rescue and sustainability.
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Food Systems

Closing Canada’s food waste gap: how food stash foundation leads the charge

Amid Canada’s worsening affordability crisis, one Vancouver-based foundation is transforming food waste into hope.
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A woman smiles as she prepares to blend a smoothie containing leafy greens and pink fruit yogurt in a blender. The image accompanies an article investigating Jessie Inchauspé’s advice to avoid smoothies for blood sugar management. It visually contrasts the popular image of smoothies as healthy with FoodFacts.org’s scientific analysis of how different ingredients and preparation methods affect glucose response.
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Jessie Inchauspé says we should avoid smoothies. What does the science say?

Demonizing smoothies oversimplifies a complex food—and ignores how ingredients and context matter
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