Food Expiration Dates Don't Have Much Science Behind Them .

https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2022/08/08/food_expiration_dates_dont_have_much_science_behind_them_846713.html ^ | August 08, 2022 | Jill Roberts

[Ouderkirk]

In general, food “expiration dates” are a good reference point for how long you have had something. If you’re cleaning the cupboards/refrigerator and you find something a year or two beyond the expiration date it’s good to get rid of it, not because it’s bad, but that you bought something and didn’t use it, nor are you likely to.

I have found things five and six years past the expiration date in the cupboard and it was time for it to go.

[Scrambler Bob]

My last purchase of Rubbing Alcohol had an expiration date of 2 years after my purchase date.

How come Scotch doesn’t have a ‘use by’ date?

[kiryandil]

https://historyofyesterday.com/that-time-100-year-old-whiskey-was-found-in-the-antarctic-d0dcfe789193

[grobdriver]

The dates on those food packages, however, are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. Rather, they come from food producers.

Or more specifically, the food producers' lawyers.

[metmom]

If the sour cream is moldy or curdled looking.

Sour cream can last several weeks past its expiration date if opened, even longer if unopened. A good and cold fridge is also essential. We set ours low enough to just start to freeze the milk, and then very gradually bump it up until it stops freezing it. It keeps it at about 34° F at that rate and leftovers last about forever.

Expiration dates are more likely valid for perishable items, not canned or dry.

The one food item I would be careful with is acidic foods, like pineapple in tin cans. The acids can eat away at the coating on the inside of the can, a process called detinning, and ruin the food.

I home can all my acidic foods so don’t have to worry about that.

[metmom]

Another item to be careful with is the pull top cans. Those don’t keep as well as the kind you need a can opener for.

[metmom]

Prepper ping

[Cold Heart]

Good question. I usually throw out the half filled container when the mold is over 1/4”

[FreeReign]

Food Expiration Dates Don't Have Much Science Behind Them .

Perhaps expiration dates aren't based on science, I don't know.

That said, I believe this new war on food expiration dates is being pushed by the globalist greens.

Beware.

[Seruzawa]

Mmmmmm... Ham and motherf***ers. Mmmmm....

[9YearLurker]

It grows mold or gets an unappealing texture, in my experience.

[Seruzawa]

I saw an expiration date on a bag of salt tablets recently. Really? Salt?

[FreeReign]

You will eat bugs and rancid canned foods!

Yup. That's what's going on here.

[LibertyWoman]

a great read!

[Pollard]

sniff test for meats, sight and touch for veggies, everything else is fair game.

[aquila48]

There is a very big incentive and conflict of interest for manufacturers putting a short expiration date on their products.

[dforest]

Be sure to stay six feet back from the shelves as you read the expiration dates.

[dforest]

We used to consume it way before the expiration date. If there was a tad left we would decide who got to take the last swig,

[Nifster]

If the cheese is moldy cut off the mold and proceed ahead

[2CAVTrooper]

“THAT stuff wasn’t edible when it was edible, so to speak!”

Meals Rejected by Ethiopians.