Significance of "Best By" Date?

Penguix · 02-May-06, 02:01 AM

I'm thinking about buying a large lot of Snickers Marathon Protein bars (I figure I can have one during the day to supplement the protein powder I have in the evening after my work out). Anyways, the "best by" date for this lot is April 2006. My question is by how much does the quality and/or nutritional benefit decrease after this date?

SNPiccolo5 · 02-May-06, 07:51 AM

Most of those "energy" bars aren't very far from a candy bar.

-Tim

**minime** · 02-May-06, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by SNPiccolo5

Most of those "energy" bars aren't very far from a candy bar.

-Tim

actually, the snickers marathon protein are in my opinion quite far from a candy bar. I don't know of any candy bar with 26g protein and 7g of fiber

As for the best buy date... I don't know I've been wondering this myself. I can only assume that a couple of months past the sell by date will not make much of a difference, i'm sure they would taste fine once they arent like best by 1998 haha

Maxgain · 02-May-06, 05:09 PM

It all depends on how far it is gone. I mean if 95% pure is deemed acceptable limit the date when it hits 94% -well meant to- does the bar change dramatically.
The predicted dates cannot be definate to allow for different conditions a safety marginis built in.

**.V.** · 02-May-06, 08:09 PM

The stuff inside can't read the lable. If it isn't spoiled it should be OK.

Back before the law changed to not allow it anymore (because we were racist scumbags for not sending them brand new stuff), we used to send our out of date drugs to third world countries who didn't have any. The feedback we got was great - they were still safe and effective. Now we just have to destroy them. I won't destroy my suppliments and protein bars because they are out of date.

**LiftGirl** · 05-May-06, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by a_welch503

The stuff inside can't read the lable. If it isn't spoiled it should be OK.

Back before the law changed to not allow it anymore (because we were racist scumbags for not sending them brand new stuff), we used to send our out of date drugs to third world countries who didn't have any. The feedback we got was great - they were still safe and effective. Now we just have to destroy them. I won't destroy my suppliments and protein bars because they are out of date.

Back when Claritin was prescription, my dad used to slip me his expired samples. It worked just fine, and I didn't grow a third eye or anything like that.