Our COOL WHIP Whipped Topping has a Best When Used By Date and this coding information can be found on the bottom of the tub.

There are 2 examples of how the date would appear on the bottom of the tub and they would be:

16APR2009 A06284R08 or

A06284R08
16APR2009

16 = Day of Month
APR = Month
2009 = Year of Expiration

A = Plant Code
0628 = Military Time Produced
4 = Production Line
R = Product (R =Regular Cool Whip, L = Light, F = Free, E= Extra Creamy, B = Strawberry, V = Vanilla)
08 = Size (08 = 8 oz, 07 = 7 oz, 12 = 12 oz, 16 = 16 oz)

For High Altitude product, "H" is added after the bowl size.

The product should be consumed by this date. We cannot assure freshness after that date because the taste and texture may have deteriorated.