What is it about?
Household is the main source of food waste. Years after years, people have been stopped cooking and rather buy ready to meat food. Also, the use of code dating by the food company haven't been explained to the consumers since they started using it. This misunderstanding between Best Before and Use By is causing a lot of food waste. Nevertheless, scientist and food company create many alternative solution to prevent this misunderstanding.
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Why is it important?
Food waste causes energy, economy and social waste. Reducing food waste will be profitable on many point for human health and wealth but more important to reduce polluting and global warming.
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Writing this article was a pleasure as it was a collaboration between my english and great researcher supervisor and a french food science student. I hope it will make people thinking about how reducing food waste would help people to reduce waste of money and to have a good impact on their carbon footprint.
Julie LIEGEARD
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This page is a summary of: Use of intelligent applications to reduce household food waste, Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, January 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2018.1556580.
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