[Minn]

I don’t get your point. What does the fact that a food product, left on its own for a long period, would just dry up and sit there prove about its initial quality?

[mazda77]

mmmmmmm, yummy!/sarc

If I leave fresh bread to its own for over a week, it turns green as do most other items shown in the picture. Your question ought to be why do these not after 137 days.

Maybe for the same reason I don’t consume soft drinks with one of the ingredients being Phosphoric Acid. This stuff will fuse heavy metals to whatever is close to it. If I were to injest any heavy metals, I would not want them fused to any part of my internals.

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What does the fact that a food product, left on its own for a long period, would just dry up and sit there prove about its initial quality?

It's the same with butter and 'spread'. Butter deteriorates and some of the spreads, even when left opened and on the counter for a few weeks, will not. It reminds me of plastic food. To me this is an indication of something not quite right. Does the body need to contend with whatever is in those foods that resists natural decay? Then again, maybe we would be well-preserved if we ate more of this stuff, whatever the stuff is.