Question about Storing Canned Food?!


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Question about Storing Canned Food?

I went camping and brought along numerous cans of food. Beans, fruits, chili, veggies and glass jars of spaghetti sauce.
When we returned home I failed to unload all the cans of food and they sat in out trailer for a week in heat upwards of 100 degrees or so. My question: Are they still safe to eat? Is there a cutoff point where heat makes canned food/jars of food unsafe to eat? I never thought of it before until a neighbor lady mentioned something about it possibly being unsafe to eat now. Is she a nut who made me become a paranoid loon, or is there validity to this?

Thanks


Answers:

She's a nut that doesn't know what she's talking about. She's probably a little old lady who's afraid of her own shadow.

Canned foods are cooked in the can or heated with the can sealed to destroy any bacteria, unless the cans are compromised - rust hole or something, then it should be safe to eat.

Edit -
The worst things you can do is to smell or taste without thoroughly cooking any questionable canned foods. A lot of the food bourne pathogens do not cause a smell in food or alter the taste. If you taste it straight from the can, you're ingesting the toxins which can cause illness.

The point is - if you are in doubt, don't taste the food before cooking it.




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