Best before date (MDH) for fruit and vegetables
Since fresh fruits and vegetables have no MHD, it is often assumed that one can only notice the freshness. On all packed fruits and vegetables, partly with loose goods also on the cardboard or the crate, there is however a (hidden) date, at which one can recognize the freshness and the age of the commodity:
Mostly it's an L number (sometimes another letter) with a combination of numbers, for example, apples that would be packaged today and go on sale:
L-1101
or
L-0111
These numbers are composed of the calendar week (today the 11th KW) and the day of this calendar week (today the 01st day, Monday). This is sometimes specified as week / day, sometimes day / week.
So, if you look briefly before shopping, which calendar week is currently, so well determine, since when the pack of tomatoes or whatever you want to buy, actually already stored.
My photo shows as an example garlic from the 09th week, 05. Day (unfortunately blurred, I hope you can see it) = L0905 P.
