To throw this mince away? Pic included

[Goneoffmorrisons]

So I just got my shopping delivered just now, and I don't know what to do with this mince. It doesn't smell bad bad, but it's the colour that's putting me off even though it's got the date 25th June on it. WWYD?

#nofilter

I’d eat it. Cooking it well will kill any bacteria.

I understand that supermarkets dye meat red to make it look like customers think it should look.

It'll be fine. I'd eat it.

Given it doesn't smell bad I'd eat that no problem. As others say it is just exposed to the air.

The pack has been pierced and the air has got in. I wouldn’t eat it because you don’t know what else has got in through the pierced pack, it could be contaminated.

Looks like normal mince to me?

Yuk 🤢. Definitely on the turn. It shouldn't be that colour at all especially with 3 days date still on it. It may be a waste but that's not your fault. I certainly wouldn't risk it and would request a refund from your online shop.

I don’t pay for anything that’s been delivered that I wouldn’t pick up and pay for in the store. No way would I pick that mince up think that looks yummy and pay for it at the checkout.

I'd request a refund

I think I'd bin it. Because now you're not sure and you wont enjoy eating it at all, you'll spend the whole meal wondering if it tastes off and if you're going to be sick tomorrow. If you can afford to buy some more I'd start again

I find Lidl mince does this to us. If it's sat and not moved for a few days it's like the blood drains from the meat and soaks onto the little tissue at the bottom. I have mince like it in the freezer now, I've ate it before as it smelled fine and it also tasted fine

I would cook it. I was brought up on brown meat, it is perfectly normal.

If you freeze mince it goes brown too.

I would contact them for a refund then probably eat it anyway

It’s fine if you pierce the pack and you don’t recoil from the odour.

The bright red meat we are used to buying in supermarkets isn’t the natural colour of butchered meat.

www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/why-supermarket-meat-is-always-unnaturally-red/

You have a sense of smell for a reason. Use it.