Posted on 06/18/2019 3:55:13 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Last year, Mom’s Organic Market founder and chief executive Scott Nash did something many of us are afraid to do: He ate a cup of yogurt months after its expiration date. Then tortillas a year past their expiration date. “I mean, I ate heavy cream I think 10 weeks past date,” Nash said, “and then meat sometimes a good month past its date. It didn’t smell bad. Rinse it off, good to go.” It was all part of his year-long experiment to test the limits of food that had passed its expiration date. In the video above, we interviewed Nash about his experiment and examined where expiration dates come from and what they really mean.
It turns out that the dates on our food labels do not have much to do with food safety. In many cases, expiration dates do not indicate when the food stops being safe to eat — rather, they tell you when the manufacturer thinks that product will stop looking and tasting its best. Some foods, such as deli meats, unpasteurized milk and cheese, and prepared foods such as potato salad that you do not reheat, probably should be tossed after their use-by dates for safety reasons.
Tossing out a perfectly edible cup of yogurt every once in a while does not seem that bad. But it adds up. According to a survey by the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, and the National Consumers League, 84 percent of consumers at least occasionally throw out food because it is close to or past its package date, and over one third (37 percent) say they always or usually do so.
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Interesting. Thanks.
You know the trout is bad when the raccoons leave it alone
If bad wine turns into vinegar, what happens when vinegar goes “bad”?
Hey, thanks for the tips!
Bingo... that is a good rule.
Yes, thank you. And for all canned goods not just peppers and tomatoes.
In case anyone thought I meant that. :)
“I have never had the pleasure of drinking raw milk. Someday I will give it a try.”
I grew up on raw milk and have great teeth.
Hadn’t had it in 30-something years until I not long ago bought a quart at the Millennial Food Store (my name).
It tasted very similar to whole milk, which I did not remember.
The initial case report, involving a form of the drug that is no longer used, was published in Annals of Internal Medicine in 1963.
There were a handful of subsequent incidents, leading to a longstanding warning about taking that drug when it is outdated.
A 2004 review of the literature on tetracycline and similar antimicrobials suggested that it might be difficult to determine when the kidney ailment is caused by such a drug.
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lol, my wife an I were cleaning out cabinets and had a challenge to find the oldest date, I won with 2004
Marked down meat is the way to go. When beef prices were sky high a couple of years ago I was surprised the grocery stores didn’t partner with mortgage companies to put in kiosks at the meat counter.
Most of the meat departments I’ve been to will mark down the “use by today” meat if you ask them.
On my 17, 5-tier “Prepper Shelves”, I had some veg soup dating back to 1998, and it was just fine.
Any and all cans bloated, dented or rusty go into the garbage right away, I rotate stock every month.
Everything’s up-to-date now, within a year.
+1.
> I have also noticed that choice beef is not nearly as tender as it used to be either, the cost SHOT UP and the quality is nothing like it used to be!!
I’ve noticed the “new” trend is Grass Fed Beef. I seem to recall in the 70’s or so the big selling point was Grain Fed Beef. Of course before that most beef was grass fed.
Under the sink I have a gallon jug of white vinegar — with an expiration date. If only there were something they could add as a preservative.
My SIL threw a fit over my making salad dressing with expired "Aged Balsamic Vinegar". She refused to eat it. I told her that she was free to make up her own dressing.
If you see off colors then it has molded and should be tossed.
Same thing with aspirin."
Ha, ha. In the 1990s, I inherited a very large bottle of aspirin that had expired in 1987. I still use it and it still works.
It is a very large bottle and I rarely need aspirin.
It depends.. If you have a suppressed immune system, it’s not recommended. Should packaging be bloated, always avoid it. Eggs will last a long time, and the more fat content milk has, the more slowly it spoils. I also crack my eggs into a cup one at a time before it goes into its intended destination.
Tortillas.. If they’re not moldy, they’ll probably be okay. It varies based on your biology, the area you live in (variations in heat and humidity, even elevation), and how quickly the food went from source to market.
Go with your gut. No pun intended.
I made some home made vinegar from a portion of homemade wine. After several years (8?) of living in a basement topping off the bottles in the kitchen every few months with great results/flavour the acid seemed to be getting perceptibly lower. Taking a sample to work revealed less than 1% acid, meaning it had lost 9+% since original testing.
Don’t know where it went, unless someone was drawing off the jug and replacing it with water. No real explanation.
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