If some food products can be consumed months or even years after their expiration date, others should be thrown away without delay, putting our health at risk.
Use by dates (DLC) and best before dates (BBD) should be carefully considered before rushing into food due to real health risks from food (contamination with salmonellosis, listeriosis, etc.). to coffee… It can be surpassed, but the taste and nutritional properties of the product are missing. longer guaranteed. Sometimes it’s hard to know what products to use up or throw away. Here’s a little summary to make things clearer.
Foods to throw away (non-exhaustive list)
In general, you should know that some opened products, such as dairy products, cold cuts or meat, must be used within 48 hours, regardless of their use-by date.
• Bread, cereals or dried fruits with traces of mold. they can be extremely harmful.
• Meat and cold meat, the plastic packaging of which is swollen. this is a sign of a leak that can allow bacteria to grow.
• products rich in water with traces of mold, such as soups, juices and compotes.
• Jars with convex lids. this is probably a sign of a significant presence of bacteria.
• Suspicious smelling or slimy looking meat, poultry or fish. the presence of salmonella is possible.
• Eggs that have passed their expiration date and that float when placed in a container of cold water (see our previous article on the subject) may contain salmonella. It is good to know that eggs are the main cause of bacterial food infections.
Foods you can store
• Honey
• rice
• Condiments
• Sugar
• Pasta
All of these foods can be used years after their expiration date because bacteria cannot grow in them. Their taste can change anyway, but this is the only risk.As for the popular natural yogurt, you have 3 weeks after the expiration date; unopened UHT milk, up to 2 months.
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Source: Le Figaro
