17-06-2019 18:28 via chron.com

This man ate 'expired' food for a year. Here's why expiration dates can be meaningless.

Last year, Mom's Organic Market founder and CEO Scott Nash did something many are afraid to do: He ate a cup of yogurt months after its expiration date. And then tortillas a year past their expiration date. "I mean, I ate heavy cream I think 10 weeks past date," says Nash, "and then meat sometimes a good month past its date. It didn't smell bad. Rinse it off, good to go." It was all part of his year-long experiment to test the limits on food that had passed its expiration date.
It turns out the
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