Comments on: How Long Foods Stay Fresh In Fridge

ShopSmart Magazine's Lisa Lee Freeman Gives Fridge Shelf-Lives Of Many Common Items

[rray52]

Oh my, to think I have eaten bleu cheeses for years.

[prolegomena]

Mahdeealoo,

Thank you for the well reasoned response. I'm curious, though, if the issue is in the mold itself-- some molds seem to exhibit particularly more devastating effects than others in the human body. For instance, isn't Bleu Cheese just a mold enhanced cheese?

Cheers.

[neenga]

Gosh, considering only two people live in our house, our food bills will go way up now that we're supposed to toss everything out.

[saywhynot]

Yeah, just look at how many have died eating a 6 day old pizza . . . . Get real, get serious and stop just scaring the obsessive-compulsives. For heaven sake, in parts of Africa they'd do ANYTHING to have the opportunity to eat ANYTHING. All this story feeds is fear. I'd say dump the story -- keep the mayo. You stand a better chance of surviving healthily.

[mahdeealoo]

This author needs an update on mold.

Aflatoxins contained in mold can not be cut off anything and make it safe to eat. Cutting off mold, which is the bloom of the toxin, will not remove the toxin from the infected article. When you see mold on anything, including cheese, that means the toxin is all throughout the item be it one berry, one apple, one container of pizza sauce, or one pound of cheese.

Throw anything with mold on it away! The toxin present is known to cause various forms of cancer.

These molds (aflatoxins) can drop a cow or horse that has eaten moldy feed in less than an hour after ingestion, dead.

Nerve gas is made from a specific mold. The gas is obtained by crushing open mold spores, utilizing the toxic gas inside as the agent to cause nerve damage, paralysis, and death.

The University of Madison in Madison, Wisconsin has done extensive mold/aflatoxin research which is documented. I studied it back in 1976. I'm sure there are more findings on mold but one thing remains clear that will not change: Mold is toxic. Do not eat it or anything that it has grown on. Cutting it off does not take the toxin out of the item on which mold has shown it's presence.

[rtw88]

Eggs, especially if fertilized (although eggs sold in the store are not fertilized), do need refrigeration (or cooling to at least 65 degrees)to prevent rotting, depending on how long you will keep them. Store purchased unfertilized eggs should not be kept more than 3 weeks. A good test - if an egg floats in water, before cooking, dispose of it. It has built up too many gases and is in the process of rotting.

I have an egg farm with fertilized eggs. We have roosters as well as hens (store-bought eggs are produced only in houses with hens). Fresh, just laid eggs, can last 60 days or so.

[ohioretiree]

Eggs?! Eggs don't even need to be refrigerated! They certainly don't need to be in the coldest part of the refrigerator.