old stored "wet" canned food

[rockriver]

we just moved.
found some storage food we'd squirrelled away.
tonight we ate green beans that "expired" in 2007.

tasted good to me!

just reporting... not recommending!

rr

[RememberGoliad]

I'll add a "+1" to that, as we routinely eat home-canned meats and veggies that are two, three years old, and factory canned veggies that are well past expiration dates, with no ill effects. If it smells good to everyone, it's probably good. You'll KNOW if it smells bad, same as you KNOW if a raw chicken leg in the fridge has turned :D

[Klayton]

Just a reminder, if there is ANY swelling of the "ends" of the cans, DO NOT EVEN OPEN, do NOT eat the contens of this type of can, as this can has had microbes growing which has produced gas (byproduct) which is what causes the swelling. I say again, DO NOT EVEN OPEN...

Just FYI...

[Lowdown3]

Tomato products are the ones to be scared of IME, I mean pastes and sauces. The mixes seem to do o.k.

[Grinnan Barrett]

if they were stored in pretty Cool environment then the life should extend out some. I don't know about 4 years. Big thing with canned food is loss of nutritional value as well as going bad. If can is not swollen, rusted, and the interior does not have discoloration after opening, or the odor is bad then you may be okay. Food poisoning is not something I want to have again so I tend to err on the side of caution. Rotating food means so much as you eat the oldest first and are always putting new stuff in the cycle. It was funny as I was just checking some cans in our cupboard to see what dates we are working on now. I have some dehydrated stuff I bought back in 1998 and I am not so sure about it. Good thing is to date cans even if you don't have a code on them. I know this stuff was old because it came from Millennium Foods.

I know Lowdown3 has a handle on it but how long does most dehydrated veggies last in really cool environments?