{"id":87811,"date":"2019-04-09T01:01:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T23:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/09\/britons-throw-away-720m-eggs-a-year-over-best-before-date-fears\/"},"modified":"2019-04-09T01:01:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T23:01:03","slug":"britons-throw-away-720m-eggs-a-year-over-best-before-date-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=87811","title":{"rendered":"Britons throw away 720m eggs a year over best-before date fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say eggs are often safe to eat long after packaging date passesBritons are throwing away 720m eggs every year \u2013 three times more than in 2008 and at a cost of \u00a3139m \u2013 according to research.The scale of waste has been blamed on overcautious consumers relying on best-before dates to decide if eggs are fresh enough to eat, and the growing popularity of vegetarian and \u201cflexitarian\u201d diets has boosted overall sales. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/food\/2019\/apr\/09\/britons-throw-away-720m-eggs-a-year-over-best-before-date-fears\" target=\"_blank\">Britons throw away 720m eggs a year over best-before date fears<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say eggs are often safe to eat long after packaging date passesBritons are throwing away 720m eggs every year \u2013 three times more than in 2008 and at a cost of \u00a3139m \u2013 according to research.The scale of waste has been blamed on overcautious consumers relying on best-before dates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}