Expired Foods such as fruits and vegetables are easy to recognize. However, not so with other foods, like meat, dairy, dry food, or food cans. You wonder, whether the food is still suitable for consumption. In addition to finding out the expiration date on the label, how to identify food that is unfit to eat?
1. Milk and cheese
Milk packaging can be consumed for a week after the packaging is opened. So is the cheese. After that, it will smell sour. To avoid this, wrap again with aluminium foil cheese, put in the box, then save it in the fridge. If the cheese was already acid, then to reuse pieces of parts that have been exposed to air.
A softer cheese made from goat’s milk, such as ricotta, will decompose faster when exposed to air.
2. Chicken, beef, and fish, as well as know
Characteristics: flesh discoloured, slimy, and smelly. There was no other way to defend it. You must immediately throw it away.
So that the meat is more durable, look at how to save it. Meat is dirty when you buy do not need to be washed, but cut just the dirty parts. If not cooked immediately, then put the meat into the freezer. In the freezer, these foodstuffs will hold up to 1 month.
3. Vegetables and fruits
Vegetable or fruit that begins to wilt still be consumed. However, vitamins are reduced, and it feels different. If a vegetable or fruit becomes mouldy and slimy, then do not eat.
4. Dry Food
Dry foods such as crackers, dry bread, and pastries can last 3-6 months if unopened packaging. But remember, white bread does not last long even though the packaging unopened. The average white bread only last for 1 week.
5. Food cans
Canned foods hold no more than 2 years. However, do not expire based on the label if you see the difference from the usual you know. For example, canned fruit sour smell, the water becomes thick and slimy, out of gas when the can is opened, or there are seeds mushrooms (mouldy).