Re:Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain
by onion2k on Friday April 19, 2019 @03:48AM
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Things that have gone bad taste bad on their own, but if you put something bad in a meal that disguises that flavour you're unlikely to notice.
It's one of the reasons why hot countries often have spicy, highly flavored foods. Before refrigeration people could use poor quality meat for longer by covering up the taste, and it didn't kill them because lots of spices have anti-bacterial qualities.
It's one of the reasons why hot countries often have spicy, highly flavored foods. Before refrigeration people could use poor quality meat for longer by covering up the taste, and it didn't kill them because lots of spices have anti-bacterial qualities.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4861184/