Salah Moqren AlShaikh, Jamal Mohammed Alotaibi and Ahmed Hasan Herab*
Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Society, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
*Corresponding author: hurab410@gmail.com
Current study aims to investigate the attitude of consumers to expiry dates of food products in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The data was collected through a face-to-face interview by using a convenient sampling method and 117 respondents were selected from Hyper Panda, Farm Markets, Tamimi Markets, and Panda. The majority of the respondents (51.30%) showed a positive attitude towards reading the expiration date of food products. Whereas 35.90 and 12.80% of the consumers showed a neutral and negative attitude towards reading expiry dates of food products respectively. Only age showed a significant relationship with the consumers’ attitudes towards reading expiry date of the food product. The study recommends that awareness programs through the collaboration of the food department should be implemented to make consumers aware of the advantages of reading expiry dates of the food products.