Women's Fitness

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NUTRITION

WORDS: SABRINA BARR

PICTURE: SHUTTERSTOCK

100 The skin ny on fat// 103 Lean an d green// 108 Tasty titbits

109 Food focus: tomatoes// 111 Good clean fun!

PAST IT?

As the saying goes

you are wh at you

eat. What does that

mean then if we

eat food that has

passed its use-by

date? According to

a study conducted

byBBC Good

Food 42 per cent

of those quizzed

would eat poultry

and 39 per cent

would eat seafo od

that has passed its

use-by date. Many

of us treat these

dates more like

vague guidelines

in order to waste

less fo od. So is this

habit of ours frugal

or irresponsible?

According to the

NHS a use-by

date means that

foodmustbe

eatenby that time 

wherea s a lot of

food is safe to

eat after its best-

befo re date wh ich

is differen t. In short

it’s betterto be

safe than sorry.

That funky-smelling

fish ju st isn’t

worth the ri sk!