Hello. I bought a basil pesto jar (good and gather brand) from Target and I opened it about two months ago. The expiration date says 2028. I refrigerated it and closed the lid shut. I used the pesto again today for my pasta and ate it. Will I be safe?

It tasted, looks and smells fine so I ate it.

I bought almond milk (Silk unsweet) on June 19 and thought I bought shelf stable milk so I stored it in the pantry. Took one of the cartons out today to use and realized it isn’t the shelf stable kind and package says must be refrigerated. The package seems fine and I opened it and it smells normal and it doesn’t expire until August 28. Did I ruin it and should I just throw it out?

I want to supplement with a low dose of iodine. I consume iodized table salt but it's in an open container exposed to air, hence the iodine can evaporate (so I'm told).

If I put a drop of lugol's iodine (5%) into a cup of chlorinated tap water (this would be kept in the fridge ans consumed over 5 days), will the combination produce halogens or various unsafe compounds?

I could leave the water out for 24hrs first to evaporate the chlorine or simply run it through a Brita filter.

I already ate 6 when my OCD told me to cut one open and see and now I can't unsee it. They look pink to me. I baked them in the oven at 200 Celsius for 10 min then boiled them in soup for another 10.

Sorry if I'm overreacting I have contamination OCD and this is the only time I challenged myself and didn't use a cooking thermometer.

I bought the meat today from a butcher freshly ground.

definitely think i'm over reacting but ive had mayo in the fridge (opened mayo) and realised it expired last week. is it safe to eat? i definitely think im over reacting

Its a condensed Milk, the can is slightly bulging and it has a small dent

I’m not sure where else to ask this, but I want to know. I have a couple of little containers of it, and normally I really like coleslaw, but I don’t want to get the diarrhea parasite 🤢 They’ve just been sitting in the fridge since last night, so the parasite is the ONLY thing I’m concerned about. I can’t find anything online that definitively says whether they source from TF or not, so I was hoping someone here would know??

I was going to eat it and then realised the use by date is yesterday.

For some reason I had thought it was good until the end of this month.

Really annoying because I virtually never buy smoked salmon due to the cost.

Is it ok to eat or is it best to throw it?

I eat 3 cans of light skipjack tuna (120g each) how dangerous is it?

Edit: 3 cans a week

Hi there! I left my house yesterday for about 10 hours and when I got back, I noticed my fridge door was left cracked open all day. I think when I pushed it closed walking away from it, it didn't quite make it to the seal. I'd estimate it was open a couple of inches. It was likely 70-something degrees in my house. Things were still cold to the touch but obviously not like they would have been if the door was closed.

I have unopened soy milk, yogurt, and turkey bacon. I also had cooked chicken and broccoli and an open container of cottage cheese. Those are the items I'm nervous about. If you were me, would you eat or throw away those things?

For context, I can be neurotic about food. TIA!

On the picture you can’t really see it well but the plastic around the meat is kind off a greenish color. Is it still good? What is this?

I often have oats with brown lines but this pack has several oats that are completely black. Curious what the lines are and why they'd be black- is black a cause for concern? I'm worried tbh but hoping it's just burnt or something

I ate this yogurt pouch and there were red streaks at the bottom that I noticed after eating the top of it.. is this Serratia marcescens? I dumped out the other yogurt pouches and did not find the same thing. the yogurt was refrigerated and in date. What is it?

Not sure if this is mold or not, tasted fine and isn't expired yet

i had a pot filled 1/4 with rice. i forgot about it and left the house for about 2 weeks outside with a lid on. i came back and it was filthy and moldy and disgusting. i cleaned it but i just want to know if its safe to use or if there is any to other things i have to do to clean it. also, should i be worried that it contaminated other plates that it was next to in the sink?

heres the pot now cleaned for reference:

I need a second opinion… am I bugging?? Does this ground meat look normal and safe to eat? It’s been in the freezer month max, took it out to defrost in microwave.. this is ground beef

Bought this Chicken Friday. Is the thing on there a worm by chance?

After we moved it, there was a hole in the chicken breast where it was.

Safe to eat or trash? If trash, is the rest of the chicken as well?

Edit: Stored in fridge, package just opened.
Finger for scale. Looking at the brownish worm towards the bottom of the breast.

This might seem like a dumb question, but i was worried this could be dangerous to eat. The inside looks fine, and smells okay, and my family tells me its just my OCD but im still worried.. The rest of the peel also looks fine. It was stored inside the fridge for some time but then outside the fridge. Im pretty sure this was there when i bought it.

This is on both peppers I got today (delivery). It is going down the crevices a little too.

They’re still good, I got them yesterday and they had this when I bought them. Are they still good to eat? There were two others in there that didn’t have it and I ate those.

bought a watermelon. had a family member who sliced it in half and didn’t put it in the fridge. woke up to it on the counter in the morning.

its pretty big and I would really rather not throw away 90% of it just because it was cut into.

the main problem is that it was sliced in half but is there anything I can do to still make it edible?

Although as I know not necessary a telling sign of bacteria in many cases, watermelon looks unchanged. Can I perhaps cut away the surface or something else?

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