Expiry dates are False

[The.Black.Templar]

Back i highchool I unknowingly bought a cake that was due to expire in wks time..... fast forward 4 days after the expiry date I opened the cake and had a very good breakfast na nikaenda class..... kitu 3hrs later I was the proud owner of a ferrari and I got violently sick. I only found out later after the school nurse asked me bring that cake to her office. Io mchezo siwezi jaribu I am very cautious.

just reminded me, in high school I ate an expired chapo, all I had to do was cut out the places with moulds and I was good to go....never drove any fast car

 

[bigDog]

tell me, with those that I have mentioned, what happens to them when they expire? the sugar still tastes good, glucose pia iko sawa. The tea sasa ndio naweka mingi kiasi ndio ishike

Contamination by microbes and other environmental causes. Most of those items will attract mould if not properly sealed. Mould belong to the fungi family which is the nature's "vulture". Many fungi are poisonous when eaten by a human being.

 

[Patricia kihoro Mwangi]

Nimewahi kunywa juice zile huandikwa " once opened consume within 3 days" nilifungua nikasahau, on the fourth day nikasema liweliwalo. Niliendesha the whole day

 

[Ngimanene na Muchere]

Hizi tumbo zenyu zinahitaji kuongezwa acid kali na minyoo hardy

 

[The.Black.Templar]

Contamination by microbes and other environmental causes. Most of those items will attract mould if not properly sealed. Mould belong to the fungi family which is the nature's "vulture". Many fungi are poisonous when eaten by a human being.

so we can say if dry foods are stored well ziko sawa?

 

[Ice_Cube]

so we can say if dry foods are stored well ziko sawa?

I guess. You can even store tomatoes for months without a fridge

 

[bigDog]

so we can say if dry foods are stored well ziko sawa?

Im familiar with maize storage, we could use stored maize for food and seeds for two years. Such maize had to be harvested under the right conditions, dried and stored under the right conditions.

 

[The.Black.Templar]

I guess. You can even store tomatoes for months without a fridge

I suppose then I had stored mine well juu niko sawa kabisa

 

[Pamba 1]

When a manufacturer puts an expiry date on a food product, he means to say he is legally responsible if eating that product before that date makes you sick. They do a lot of research using animals such as mice, guinea pigs and monkeys.

I wouldn't encourage you to monkey around with expired food. You could win a darwin award and make us all laugh at you. Which would be sad!

Be nice buana, the week is still fresh.

 

[Mwalimu-G]

@The.Black.Templar
Utawachia Muindi wa inda maisha yako mikononi mwake? Same person spilling effluent into Nairobi river?

You are very much on point.

 

[Mwalimu-G]

Im familiar with maize storage, we could use stored maize for food and seeds for two years. Such maize had to be harvested under the right conditions, dried and stored under the right conditions.

Dry or it gets fungi that produce aflatoxin (many people call it aflotoxins)..

 

[bigDog]

Be nice buana, the week is still fresh.

Mimi nimetaja mtu? Mimi?

 

[bigDog]

I guess. You can even store tomatoes for months without a fridge

I saw some Rwandese group of farmers using this technology to preserve fruit juices. Why can't we do it at home?

 

[shocks]

Most foods huwa best before, not expiry. Best before includes things like taste, aroma, texture, the way the food looks etc etc
sio kusema inaweza kudhuru

 

[The.Black.Templar]

Most foods huwa best before, not expiry. Best before includes things like taste, aroma, the way the food looks etc etc
sio kusema inaweza kudhuru

aah asante for that insight!

 

[bigDog]

Most foods huwa best before, not expiry. Best before includes things like taste, aroma, the way the food looks etc etc
sio kusema inaweza kudhuru

But it does have an expiry date doesn't it?

 

[Denis Young]

Bread when put in the fridge can go for months. But who likes the taste of frozen bread?

 

[Afro]

When poison expires,does it become more lethal ama safe for consumption?

 

[Nattydread]

Halafu, the manufacturer always factors in fools by placing the date within a safe margin.

 

[It's Me Scumbag]

Wadauz natarajia mumekuwa watu wema.

So sometime back in Feb I discovered some unutilized shopping that I had placed somewhere and forgotten about. This includes sugar, ile ya mumias, tea and glucose, all these expired in 2020 and I have been happily consuming them this year na hazina madhara yeyote.

This drives me to declaring that expiry dates are meant to drive unnecessary consumerism. Unless there is a smell or a bad taste, don't throw things away because they have expired.

Good day

@The.Black.Templar please remember to come here and tell us when you start driving faster than the blue subarus of Thika Road...