Why do food items that are supposed to be stored in a ‘cool dark place’ seem to be fine sitting on well-lit and open supermarket shelves?

Question

Why do food items that are supposed to be stored in a ‘cool dark place’ seem to be fine sitting on well-lit and open supermarket shelves?

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Answer 1

They’re most likely spending less time on the grocery store shelf than they will in your home. Also a grocery store is probably more concerned with making sure product they want to sell is, well, easily visible to people interested in buying it. So it might not be ideal for storing the product, but the grocery store is really hoping to sell it, not store it