What happens if you eat out of date food?

Answer 1

Chocolate carries a use by and best before date for legal reasons. Where a product is passed it best before date which is generally used on this type of product all that is being stated by the manufacturer is that on or before the date the product was at its best. Dates are used as guidelines for their use and whilst most products carry these, the dates are normally kept in the very safe area of the shelf life. Its advisable to use common sense where a products consumption is concerned

Answer 2

It would depend on what you mean by "out of date:"

• If you eat something past the "best used by date," likely nothing would happen.
• It you eat something past the "expiration date," likely nothing would happen, but it is possible that the nutritional value of the food has degraded to the point of being worthless.

There are those who believe that food past the expiration date, that is canned food, will go bad. Consider something, a sealed container that has not had the seal broken is still a sealed container. How would the pathogen get in if the seal is not broken? It the food is not contaminated when it is sealed, it will not be contaminated when you open it.

Here's a real world example: In 1983 I served in the Army in Germany. C-rations were still issued and available. I was born in 1963. I ate C-rations canned in 1956--7 year older than me, and canned 28 years before consumed. The food was a little grey and tasted like the can, but it did not make me ill or kill me.

Food that is not canned is another matter. Dairy, with the exception of cheese, should be eaten by the expiration date and within a week of the best used by date. The same with meat.

Refrigerated foods can last about three weeks if the temperature is maintained and it is in a sealed container.

Meat, poultry, and fish can last up to three years if frozen correctly and temperatures are maintained.

Canned foods, however, if processed and sealed correctly can last indefinitely. Provided of course that they remain sealed.

Answer 3

It depends on how out of date it is. One or Two days and you're probably fine, but a month or two might make you sick or dead.

If it is frozen ravioli, there shouldn't be a food safety issue - just quality. If it is canned, you will need to make a judgment based on how far out of date and the condition of the can.

Answer 4

If the food has become contaminated, you could get very sick. On the other hand, if the food is still good beyond the expiration date, you won't get sick at all. Eating food that is past the expiration date is risky.

Answer 5

you will get a stomach ache and die of pain