FYI if any of you are interested in canned food shelf life past the Best if Used by date
I found some cans of Campbell's Pork and Beans in a basement corner shelf I had forgotten about.
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Looked at the dates and they were from March 00 to November 2001
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Opened them all up one at a time and found they had kept well.
This is the can from March 00
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Only one can had started showing the signs of spoilage
From Nov 01 you can see it is loosing it's mositure
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5 smelled normal, no bulges in the cans and the liner on the inside was bright.
The can that spoiled had rust or some discolored metal on the inside and outside.
The beans had turned a darker color than the contents of other cans
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The birds, Opossum and Raccoon ate it all![]()
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