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Would you eat this yoghurt?

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Northerner

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I have had some yoghurts in my fridge for ages, but hadn't realised quite how long - the best before date was 24th February 2014. Had a look and a sniff and took the plunge, tasted fine 🙂

Would you have eaten it?
 
Probably, yes. Just yesterday, I sniffed and then tasted a pot of opened single cream that had a date of 20th March. It was ok, so I polished it off with my dessert!

No adverse reaction to report thus far!

Andy 🙂
 
If it smells ok, it'll be fine, as I always told my son - who was keen on throwing it away if past its date :O !
 
Not sure I would have with a yoghurt. Especially if that lid had the tell-tale 'bulge'.

Fingers crossed you don't get any feedback from it!
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Not sure I would have with a yoghurt. Especially if that lid had the tell-tale 'bulge'.

Fingers crossed you don't get any feedback from it!
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No bulge! 🙂 A friend of mine worked in a dairy and he said that yoghurts are usually OK for weeks after their BB date (or Sell By, or Use By - can't remember what it was now!)

I don't eat meat beyond its Use By date, although I will freeze meat on its Use By date and leave it frozen for far beyond the recommended number of months.
 
Personally not, no. I opened a natural yoghurt yesterday, intending to eat it as it was only 1 day past it's date, but on the top was a little bit of culture!! 😱
 
Northerner said:
No bulge! 🙂 A friend of mine worked in a dairy and he said that yoghurts are usually OK for weeks after their BB date (or Sell By, or Use By - can't remember what it was now!)

I don't eat meat beyond its Use By date, although I will freeze meat on its Use By date and leave it frozen for far beyond the recommended number of months.
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I actually just thought to myself, "Hang oooooon....., what's the date again???!?"

But no. It sems that you actually have eaten it after all (given that you posted after 12pm)
 
I've eaten yogurts older than that and lived to tell the tale! I think if it looks alright, smells alright and tastes alright then it probably is alright. The only thing I would probably be more cautious with is meat.

The use by dates are only a guideline, the food isn't suddenly going to go bad at the stroke of midnight on the last day! Unless you are very unlucky.
 
I'm paranoid about milk and milk products going off, so I probably wouldn't have eaten it.
 
Absolutely not. In fact I've had milk that hasn't yet reached its use-by date but that tastes yucky to me - very sensitive with dairy! But I always err heavily on the side of caution, NOT wanting my type 1 son to have a vomiting illness, and NOT wanting to have one myself and be incapable of caring for him (since I have nobody to step in and help).
 
A sealed, unopened, non bulging, continually refridgerated yogurt - definitely I'd have opened, sniffed, taken small taste, and if OK, eaten whole pot. If no ill effects after a few hours, then would have eaten rest of batch, with sniff and taste each time.
 
I only realised they'd been in there a while when I noticed them on offer again and thought' I won't buy any, as I've already got some in the fridge', not thinking that they are only on offer at least a month apart! 😱 No repercussions, thankfully 🙂
 
I usually do the sniff and see test and quite a sensitive nose I have, but 24th Feb is pushing it a bit by my standards :D
 
'scientific explanation' - once upon a time my subject!!

'Use by' and 'Best before' are completely different - 'use by' is meant for potentially harmful foods when they go bad, such as meat - and dairy products! Having said that i also do a lot of smell testing too!
The bacterial culture added to make yoghurt grow faster than any very few nasty bacteria which might be there, although in a natural food like milk they could be there! (As milk is pasteurised not sterilised) So the date is precautionary, after that date nasties could have increased to levels which could make you sick and they can't be detected. In reality conditions in yoghurt plants and dairies where the milk is collected have high levels of hygiene so it is a very low risk.
 
If its not hairy or green I'd shove it in my mush lol
 
Oh Alan!!!! I wouldn't eat one and even Paul says he wouldn't and he has a cast iron stomach, hope you live to tell the tale!!
 
Northerner said:
I have had some yoghurts in my fridge for ages, but hadn't realised quite how long - the best before date was 24th February 2014. Had a look and a sniff and took the plunge, tasted fine 🙂

Would you have eaten it?
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How bad you were over Christmas why take the risk, food poisoning can take months to get over.
 
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