When the power goes out or your kitchen is flooded, food safety becomes crucial to prevent foodborne illnesses. Follow these guidelines to keep your food safe during emergencies.

What's the difference? Treat best before as a guideline and use by as a deadline.

Knowing how to get the best out your freezer helps with meal planning and avoiding food waste. 

Most frozen foods need to be defrosted before cooking, and some, such as berries, must be cooked before eating.

Food allergy, food intolerance and coeliac disease are the most common forms of food hypersensitivity.

A food allergy is an abnormal immune system reaction to a food.

A food intolerance is a difficulty in digesting certain foods.

Coeliac disease is an “auto immune” disease triggered by gluten.

People with a lactose intolerance don’t have enough of the enzyme lactase that helps digest milk.