How Long Does Canned Food Last? Survival Tip

guys when it comes to long-term food storage there's a lot of different foods out there a lot of different options and you really need to have some variety but one of the most easy access to foods is your standard canned food these of course you can walk into any grocery store in a lot of other places and pick these up and we're gonna take a look at how long will food last in one of these cans now probably the most variety would be your canned food I mean there's so many different choices I mean you can go with your standard vegetables you can go with fruits you can go with even meat products there's just a lot of different options and to me one of the best ways to store up food this also applies to those large cans now we took a lot of information from the USDA so this is pretty straight up information also the canned food alliance so I did a lot of research on this because I wanted to make sure that this information was credible and of course the first thing I want to address is your date on the can this says best by December 2022 now this is a Best Buy that means it's for quality and not safety the USDA does not require that you have a safety date on here because guys honestly these things are sealed now the best by date is actually optimal freshness you know if something is gone beyond the best by date it typically can lose color it can lose its texture or change texture and its flavor also it loses some of the nutritional values so there is a few downsides for keeping this for extended period of time but according to the USDA it does not change the safety factor typically they'll say up to 6 years or so and sometimes in between that one of the things that's a little different is with acidic type foods like tomatoes they seem to go bad quicker than your pH balanced foods like these lima beans and so you have some things like that to consider but honestly from all the information I looked at it really doesn't matter that much in fact they even listed spam is one of the best because of its balanced pH if you can stomach it now this all so requires you to keep this in about a 75 or below temperature range if you have it heated up typically it'll expand the can and that's one of the reasons why a lot of times you'll see cans that are that are puffed up or expanded or swollen now that's a big no-no so you don't wanna make sure that cans that are swollen that's that's a no-go cans that are dented slightly are okay once you open it you smell it it seems like it's fine then you'll be good right here we have the little rim dented right here but that does not affect the seal and one of the things about these cans and we're gonna take a look at a can inside in just a second but the food never touches the actual metal of the can there's actually a liner on the inside to keep a barrier between the two now these cans are hermetically sealed and so there's a heat process and with time there's it's extremely sanitary conditions when they can these and it's under pressure so there's nothing that's going to be able to grow inside the can it is completely sealed and so this can is gonna last I mean this food there is no way to get oxygen to it or to get any kind of you know bacteria or anything like that into the can one of the things is botulism that's definitely food poisoning that can kill you but there's it's not a big concern with your canned food it's more toward your canning your home canning sometimes that can happen but botulism is possible but with commercially canned food it's very rare in fact you should always smell the contents of your can as long as it smells good and it looks good you should be good to go but like they say when in doubt throw it out now of course obviously we have the pull top cans those seem to be getting more and more popular but then you have your standard cans so you want to make sure that you have a standard can opener a manual can opener to go with these you may have an electric can opener you've been using and it's doing great but if for some reason you don't have electricity that's gonna be a problem and so being able to open these up another thing that I want to mention is to have variety now we have some Vienna sausages here we've been eating these for years and these are really easy and quick and then we have some chunk chicken these tamales actually are some of our favorites I know that seems a little gross but these are really good and so this meat you can keep you know there's a little ton of other type meats that you can also store and then you have your standard vegetables you know in all the different brands so you know you can really make a large variety using canned food and then of course with your peaches and your pears and different things like that with the fruit now here we have diced tomatoes and this is great for cooking so you know you can use certain cans for different cooking things but guys the big thing here is is that this food will last and really what they say is honestly with conditions right they will last forever now one of the problems is is when you get rust on a can because these are metal sometimes the rust can weaken the metal sometimes it allows for bacteria to seep in so if you have rust on the can go ahead and toss those out because there is a possibility but again if it's dented as long as it doesn't break the seal lining on the inside of the canned you know you should be good to go guys if you can looks kind of like this you probably don't want to eat off of it but this is not a can that we're holding food in if it looks like this you're in good shape and then if you have this little cool top you're in great shape because you don't have to have a can opener so we have some payers here we're gonna just go ahead and open them up this is a great seal around here we have a lip we're going to just pour these out man that's gonna be good the guys inside here there is a little bit of a coating you can't really feel it it does feel like metal but they do have that coating in there just to keep it from touching the food to the metal surface and again these have been sterilized they've been cleaned really there's a low chance already of any kind of bacteria being in it in the first place and then with the pressure and heat that goes into canning these guys it's really safe and that's one of the great things about the USDA I mean they are making sure that these companies are up to par and that way you can rely on it one thing that I will say though especially with older cans is that the metal sometimes there's not a seal and the food can taste a little metallic but overall it should still be safe to eat I mean guys if there's nothing else you're gonna not care at least I won't also with a can you know you can eat right out of a can mmm I made a good choice better than those diced tomatoes for sure thing I was looking forward to this now I know why now to maintain freshness it's best to rotate your food and there are actually some systems out there that are slanted and the cans come down to the front use those first and then you replenish them through the back and that seems to be a great way is something that I've wanted to do for a long time and will do that for sure especially now that this virus thing has been going around here in 2020 so we definitely are more thinking about preparedness because of that but again guys that's mainly toward freshness and not safety so if you find cans in the back of your closet don't necessarily toss them out as long as they're in a good controlled environment and they're not damaged that is wasting food is something that you could possibly use later on down the road it's really funny because a couple of years ago I found a big container that we had a bunch of canned food in and it was around probably 2005 when we started storing those so these cans were 15 years old I thought we still had them but I think my wife just tossed them out the labels were starting to wear off and they looked kind of rough around the edges and I think we just figured at that time that you know they could possibly be bad honestly I really wanted to keep them because I thought you know what if we don't have any food at least we'll have that as a backup in fact I was hoping to find it and open one up and eat them while we were here but that just didn't happen but honestly guys stocking up your pantry with canned food like this is a smart way to go and again you will lose some of the taste some of the texture you could possibly lose some of the flavor also nutritional value but to me even if this has half the nutritional value it's still half and it's better than nothing and who hasn't seen a post-apocalyptic movie where they're eating out of old cans found in various places so guys when it comes to that canned food indefinite shelf life pretty much unless the cans damaged open it up smell it if it has a bad odor to it than toss it if it's dented or rusted or it's swollen throw it away if in doubt throw it out otherwise enjoy your food guys if you're working on a plan to be more prepared there's no better resource than the survival dispatch insider they use some of the top names in the survival world that come together and put out some plans that are unsurpassed by anybody else and this is credible information we upload one video that's exclusive to the insider every week so I have a link down below in the description I think it's well worth checking out be strong be of good courage god bless america long live the Republic [Music] if you're even slightly prepper mindset you know that the and very high protocol even if this has half the truth so guys when it comes to canned food so guys when it guys when it comes to an emergency guys when it comes to an emergency and you last piece guys sorry vide goes over you can you can go ahead and go home now your can of pears worth it

Channel: SensiblePrepper

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Length: 10min 38sec (638 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 29 2020