can I eat rice that has past it's expiration date?

Answer 1

Here's a USDA guide to food label dates:


"Sell by" dates tell the store how long to offer a product for sale. Make sure you buy it before this date.

"Best if used by" dates recommend best flavor or quality and don't refer to food safety.

"Use by" dates refer to the last date that the manufacturer suggests is best for the product to be consumed.

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Use or toss?
Real Simple magazine compiled a guide to expiration dates with help from experts and product manufacturers. These dates are offered as a rough guideline.
Beer: 4 months, unopened
Chocolate (Hershey bar): 1 year from production date
Dried pasta: 12 months
Frozen dinners: 12 to 18 months, unopened
Frozen vegetables: 18 to 24 months, unopened; 1 month, opened
Honey: Indefinite shelf life
Juice, bottled (apple or cranberry): 8 months from production date, unopened; 7 to 10 days, opened
Maple syrup, real or imitation: 1 year
Maraschino cherries: 3 to 4 years, unopened; 2 weeks at room temperature, opened; 6 months refrigerated, opened
Marshmallows: 40 weeks, unopened; 3 months, opened
Mayonnaise: Indefinitely, unopened; 2 to 3 months from "purchase by" date, opened (After this time, color or flavor may be affected, but product is still generally safe to consume.)
Peanut butter, processed (Jif): 2 years, unopened; 6 months, opened (refrigerate after 3 months)
Pickles: 18 months, unopened; no conclusive data if opened (Discard if slippery or excessively soft.)
Salad dressing, bottled: 12 months after "best by" date, unopened; 9 months refrigerated, opened
Steak sauce: 33 months (After this time, color or flavor may be affected, but product is still generally safe to consume.)
Tabasco: 5 years, stored in a cool, dry place
Vinegar: 42 months
Wine (red, white): 3 years from vintage date, unopened; 20 to 100 years for fine wines; 1 week refrigerated and corked, opened
Worcestershire sauce: 5 to 10 years, unopened (After this time, color or flavor may be affected, but product is still generally safe to consume.); 2 years, opened

Answer 2

As long as they don't look and smell off then they're fine to eat, i've eaten plenty past the use-by date, as long as they're kept in the fridge and also depending on what they are, some are ok up to a week after the expiry date.

Answer 3

It´s a cereal, it can be kept for years, unless it´s not completely dry or has bugs

Answer 4

I wouldn't recommend it. Those dates are there for a purpose. Sometimes you can and sometimes you can get awful sick.

Answer 5

Yes, unless it is full of bugs or something.

Answer 6

dry (boxed) -- yes
canned or in a package already cooked-- no.

Answer 7

YES

Answer 8

no

Answer 9

No.................