{"id":4147,"date":"2016-02-03T13:51:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T13:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2016-02-03T13:51:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T13:51:24","slug":"dates-on-egg-cartons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/dates-on-egg-cartons\/","title":{"rendered":"Seen These Numbers On Egg Cartons Before? Well, Here’s What They Really Mean…"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know when you go to the store or supermarket and buy eggs<\/em><\/strong>? The carton has a whole bunch of numbers on the side, doesn’t it? One of them is clear – it’s a ‘best buy’ date<\/em><\/strong>. We all understand that. But what about that mysterious number next it? Well, it’s called a ‘Julian Date’<\/em><\/strong>. And it also indicates a time of year. A specific day, in fact. It’s a number between 1 – 365 and indicates what day of the year the eggs were boxed.<\/p>\n

So if it says ‘001’, the eggs were laid on January 1st, etc. The alarming thing? Your eggs probably weren’t laid very recently at all…<\/p>\n

A campaign by ‘Fresh Eggs Daily<\/strong><\/em>‘ is looking to raise awareness. Here’s what the founder says about it all:\u00a0\u201cEVERY date I saw on them was between 352-355, meaning that those eggs were put in that carton on the 352nd-355th day of last year. Add to that the 19 days so far this year, and these eggs have all been in the carton for about a month (and could have been laid up to 30 days prior to that) and check out the Sell by dates \u2014 these eggs can still sit on the shelf for a few more weeks.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Find out more about this strange ‘Julian Date’ business…<\/p>\n