Quebecers are discarding significant amounts of edible food because of confusion over best before dates, according to a new study from Too Good To Go and Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab.

The study found Quebec households throw out about $604 worth of food each year due to date labels, including $290 linked specifically to misunderstandings about best before dates, higher than the national average of $246.

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Only two per cent of Quebecers ignore the date when buying food, and the issue is most common among Generation Z, 40 per cent of whom do not know what the date means.

Nationally, confusion over best befo

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