To eat a yogurt that is a month out of date?

[SweetMaryHell]

It’s never been opened - natural yogurt, smells ok - month out of date. AIBU to eat the bastard?

Look, smell and taste.
Does it look ok,?what does it smell like? Use the tip of your little finger to do a taste test.

Some foods I wouldn't use if out of date( even if I were to use them normally iyswim) such as chicken, fish, shell fish.
Other foods could probably last a century!!

I keep yoghurt and cream well past their dates and just use their look, smell and taste to judge, they will last even longer if they've not been opened.

@notacooldad

Look, smell and taste. Does it look ok,?what does it smell like? Use the tip of your little finger to do a taste test.

Some foods I wouldn't use if out of date( even if I were to use them normally iyswim) such as chicken, fish, shell fish.
Other foods could probably last a century!!

This ^

Look, smell and taste are much more reliable than a date essentially provided to make sure manufacturers and retailers sell the oldest stock first.

Fermented milk has been known since 5000BC, long before fridges and sell by dates.

I’m lax on dates but even I don’t think I’d eat that. I’d give it a sniff though.

@AudTheDeepMinded

Give it a smell, if it smells ok it will be fine. Do PP really think that on midnight of a BBE date food immediately becomes deadly?

No but I do think it might go a bit off in the following MONTH

I do think it might go a bit off in the following MONTH

It might, which is why the thing to do is to look, sniff and taste. It's not difficult to tell when food is off, your eyes and nose will tell you easily enough.

I suspect that lots of people who stick to sell by dates have just never seen yoghurt that is off.

They think that because it is out of date, it is 'off' and needs to be thrown away. It looks and smells perfect fine, so they think they can't tell when something is really off from the out of date stuff. I also think that if you eat something you honestly think is off, your body can reject it based on that feeling

There is no confidence that humans will know when something really is off because things are thrown away based on date, long before they really are off.

I would happily waste the yoghurt. I don't fully understand the food waste thing though.

What is there to understand? Producing food has environmental consequences. If you throw it away when you could have eaten it safely, you will have to eat something else instead, so you use more of the earth's resources, which are not infinite. And you've wasted your own money.

@FinallyHere

I do think it might go a bit off in the following MONTH

It might, which is why the thing to do is to look, sniff and taste. It's not difficult to tell when food is off, your eyes and nose will tell you easily enough.

I suspect that lots of people who stick to sell by dates have just never seen yoghurt that is off.

They think that because it is out of date, it is 'off' and needs to be thrown away. It looks and smells perfect fine, so they think they can't tell when something is really off from the out of date stuff. I also think that if you eat something you honestly think is off, your body can reject it based on that feeling

There is no confidence that humans will know when something really is off because things are thrown away based on date, long before they really are off.

Yes. I find it baffling, probably because when I was growing up as far as I can recall there were no use by/best before dates on anything. There still aren't on fruit and veg you buy from the greengrocer or a market stall, or if you grow your own, and yet we all manage to know if something is no longer edible.

I'd eat it as long as it looked and smelt ok, and the lid wasn't domed. Older yoghurt is much creamier.

Slightly sidetracking but it pisses me off at work we have to stick 100% to the use by dates. Even if it is a few hours past midnight staff on the night shift will go through the fridge, bread bin whatever and chuck everything out.
The veg situation is ridiculous. If staff buy courgettes, potatoes etc packed it will have a date on and they will stick religiously to it, chucking out perfectly good onions and carrots but if someone has bought them unpacked theres no date on them so they last until they are used. Madness!

You will easily be able to tell if it’s not edible

Yoghurt is usually fine. If the top isn't blown and it smells ok then I'd eat it.

It’ll be fine. We were once given a tray of yoghurts almost a year out of date. Dh ate them all, no I’ll effects. I didn’t fancy them! But would (and have) happily eaten them a few weeks out of date.

Oh for goodness sake, whatever did we do years ago when we didn't have 'use before' dates? We used our common sense, thought how long we'd had things and how they'd been stored, gave things a sniff, a quick taste, and made our decision....

fine if it hasn't been previously opened.

@doglikescheeseontoast

Oh for goodness sake, whatever did we do years ago when we didn't have 'use before' dates? We used our common sense, thought how long we'd had things and how they'd been stored, gave things a sniff, a quick taste, and made our decision....

We died much younger.

Looks alright? Smells alright? Tastes alright?
It’s probably alright.
I’ve regularly eaten yogurt that out of date and never been ill.
I’m only strict on meat dates.

Should be fine, especially as it's not been opened.

@AudTheDeepMinded

Give it a smell, if it smells ok it will be fine. Do PP really think that on midnight of a BBE date food immediately becomes deadly?

This isn't midnight of the date though, it's a month.

It's yogurt for goodness sake - very easy to tell if it's gone off.

And who on earth thinks a yogurt is going to kill you, purely because it's a week past its sell-by date!

If it looks, smells and tastes fine, it will be fine.

We died much younger.

People did die younger in times gone by, yes.

We died from:

• malnutrition
• lung cancer linked to smoking and passive smoking
• heart disease ditto
• infectious diseases which are now rare because of vaccinations
• bacterial infections which can now be treated with antibiotics
• any number of diseases and congenital conditions which used to be incurable but which can now be cured or controlled, e.g. diabetes, kidney disease, hole in the heart, asthma
• industrial diseases and accidents
• car accidents which would now not be fatal because of airbags, seatbelts and better designed cars
• fatal accidents in houses with open coal fires or unattended chip pans
• all sorts of dreadful accidents which befell young children left unsupervised in ways that don't happen as much now, e.g. being knocked over on the road, drowning in the canal
• complications of pregnancy or childbirth which are very rare now

Not from eating yogurt past its use by date or bread with a little bit of mould picked off or a slightly wizened apple.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g the question was 'what did we do before BBE dates?' not 'what happened when we ate out of date yoghurts?'

I'd eat it - often have yoghurt, creme fraiche & cream in the fridge for ages - if unopened they last & last

Hasn't yoghurt already gone off? Isn't that the point?

It'll taste stronger, though.