Food Store bought canned goods

[Tennessee gal]

What is the oldest canned foods you’ve eaten? I opened some 6 year old canned peas, green beans, and sweet potatoes yesterday. They didn’t smell bad,but seemed to have lost flavor.

 

[nomifyle]

11 year old canned turkey, was fine.

God is good all the time

Judy

 

[Optimus Prime]

12 year old vegetable and sirloin Chunky Soup. Wasn’t bad, had to add salt and pepper

 

[1911user]

10 year old spam is fine.
Have had several different commercially canned soup 10+ years old.
Not canned, but JIF peanut butter lasts a long time beyond the best-used-by date, even the extra crunchy.
All of these were stored at room temperature conditions.

 

[vestige]

What is the oldest canned foods you’ve eaten? I opened some 6 year old canned peas, green beans, and sweet potatoes yesterday. They didn’t smell bad, seemed to have lost flavor.

Varies.

10 to 12' years is not uncommon.

I have Mountainhouse freeze dried meat from 1977.

Still good

 

[SouthernBreeze]

I'm still using canned red kidney beans out of a flat that expired in 2013. Still good.

 

[SAPPHIRE]

Some foods will lose a lot of flavor............IMO........veggies go flat, fruits lose texture, and soups can do all the above. Probably won't hurt you, but there won't be "MMMMMM......GOOD"

 

[greysage]

Have eaten 10-12 year old tuna and Spam. Didn't notice any difference. Would rather not wait that long to eat canned goods again.

 

[momma_soapmaker]

10 to 12 years on some stuff. Some things start to taste a little "tinny", but still edible.

Tomato products and canned pumpkin do NOT keep well long term. Ask me how I know.

 

[moldy]

Home canned or commercial? I've eaten 12 year old home canned stuff that was perfect

 

[Carl2]

In the US Army in 1968, we would eat 25-year-old C-rations (canned food) while out of base on missions. They had lost a little flavor, but were better eating than our mess hall chow. Of course, the Mess Officer and Mess Sergeant had a scheme going where they sold the good food on the black market. After I was transferred elsewhere, the troops boycotted the mess hall. I hope that got the "Brass's" attention.

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

I used a commercially canned can of pinto beans with onion a few weeks ago to make a pot of chili. The beans expired in 2014 - seven years ago.

They were perfectly fine.

 

[Smoke]

I've had Hormel's chili, 2008, starting to have a metalic taste, but still good

 

[summerthyme]

10 to 12 years on some stuff. Some things start to taste a little "tinny", but still edible.

Tomato products and canned pumpkin do NOT keep well long term. Ask me how I know.

And yet, HOME canned pumpkin keeps very well (in a dark cabinet) for at least 10 years...

Summerthyme

 

[Toosh]

It depends on what it is. 3 years past best-by date on canned pie fillings and I can taste the "can." Peaches and fruit seem to lose much of their flavor about 5 years past best-by date. Peaches are the one item most likely to have "can" issues and failures in my pantry. Thus I place plastic under those cans. Also potatoes are more mushy about 5 years past best-by date. Veg are usually perfectly fine 10 years past best by. On meats, at 10 years past best by I taste very strong salt.

 

[psychgirl]

10 to 12 years on some stuff. Some things start to taste a little "tinny", but still edible.

Tomato products and canned pumpkin do NOT keep well long term. Ask me how I know.

Ohhhh yes, I learned these two “fails” the hard way!
I’ve wasted way too many cans of hood pumpkin pie filling before I realized they do not last long. Some cans went bad in two years!