I am always nervous about canned tomatoes, including tomato paste, etc. I have a whole box full in my basement that are a few years past expiration and aren’t bulging or rusty, but I would still be nervous about eating them. We buy tomato stuff in bulk like most things, but we never eat it all because I grow/can/freeze my own.
“We buy tomato stuff in bulk like most things, but we never eat it all because I grow/can/freeze my own.”
I think that’s why I have so many tomato test subjects. In the summer we don’t use them at all. And then in the winter I use what I had Frozen first. Then eventually whatever I can. So like you, the Box stuff gets neglected
let me know if you ever open yours and what the result is.
Do you mean “expiration” date or “best by date?” All of my cans say “best by” and from what I have read they could be good years after that. They just lose their maximum flavor.