"Sell by Date" on Yogurt

Pull dates are established so stores can keep only fresh products on their shelves, but that only means it should be sold or pulled from store shelves by that date. Most foods are good for at least a week or three beyond the pull date.

Yogurt keeps indefinitely, or until colorful little patches of color and fuzz begin to grown in it. Even then, you can usually scoop the moldy places out and the rest is fine. Fruit-flavored yogurts may spoil a bit faster than plain, but you should still get at least several days of refrigerated life from it after the pull date.

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Read Meg's responce. She is the first one to respond to your question. She is very right. I've eaten yogurt 6 months out of date. We eat it too quickly for it to usually go 30 days past the date.

Yogurt is spoiled milk, so is cheese, cottage cheese, and sour cream. It just depends on how you spoil it. When grape juice spoils it becomes wine. When wine spoils it becomes vinegar. They purposely grow mold on cheese to make blue cheese. The mold is the "blue" in blue cheese.

If yogurt is "spoiled" you can tell it by the smell and you may see mold. When I see a little bit of mold on yogurt I scoop it out and eat the yogurt.

Have you ever eaten a steak that restaurants tout as aged beef? The restaurants place the steak in a controlled environment and allow it to decay (spoil). When it reaches the right point of decay they sell it to you as "aged beef". Its not uncommon for the restaurant or butcher shop selling "aged beef" to cut some mold off the beef before they cook it or sell it to you.

For those that may be interested,
Ignorance is lack of facts.
stupid is the lack of ability to correctly process facts
Knowledge is the facts you have gathered
Wisdom is the ability to correctly process and use knowledge.

Its no sin to be ignorant. Albert Einstein was being interviewed by a newspaper reporter after Einstein had been declared to be the smartest man in the world. The reporter asked Einstein how it felt to work with people no where near as smart as he was. Albert Einstein said, "We are all ignorant, just in different subjects." "I am patient with those that are ignorant, just not those that are proud of it." And I did something yesterday Einstein never learned to do. I tied my own shoes.

Good luck to you and yours. And don't worry about the expiration dates. Its a government program run amuck.

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Actually, I have eaten yogurt quite a while after the sell-by date, and it was still good. This is how I tell--if the seal is inflated like there is extra air in the package, don't eat it. If the seal looks normal, then open it up and look, sniff, or taste it. You'll know if it's not good anymore.
I know people who throw out food immediately after the date printed on the package. But myself, I don't like wasting it if it's still good. I always test it before I throw it.

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I always worry about using stuff after the sell by date and my aunt sent me a great website. It is www.stilltasty.com.

According to the website, 7-10 days if refrigerated and 1-2 months if frozen.

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I have eaten it as much as 3 weeks beyond. You will know when you open it or tatse it. Otherwise it is safe!

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I once read somewhere that yogurt is good up to one week after the expiration date. My children eat yogurts that are a few days past the sell by date all the time. I was just in a discount grocery store and they were actually selling yogurts that were a few days past expiration. I didn't buy them, but there's gotta be something to the theroy that they are still okay to eat if a grocery store is selling them past the sell by date.

BTW love Psalm 121 :)

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Depends on the yogurt! I have eaten Erovan "the good news" yogurt several months after the sell by date and it was still good. You should be able to tell by looking at it and smelling it if it has gone bad! Sugar added to yogurt will make it go bad faster as the bad bacteria eats the sugar and multiplies!

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Funny that you should ask this now. On Friday my daughter (16 months) and I shared a month old sell by date yogurt. It was wallaby yogurt and still yummy as normal with no ill effects. This was the first time I've done this as we both were craving it, but won't make it a habit.

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Should be the same as milk. I would not eat it after this date.

There is live bacteria in yogurt that multiply beyond a safe level if too far past the expiration date. Proceed with caution.

I guess I am the minority, I don't eat any dairy products after the "sell by date". I have had bad experiences, and just like the grocery stores I pull it from my shelves too. =)

check out this site http://www.stilltasty.com/ I've found it to be helpful in answering these types of questions.

no, i don't use anything past ex. date. in fact, i have had organic milk go bad unopened and before exp. date. so now i am cautious over everything

The 'adult brand' yogurts usually say that the product is good for 7 days after the 'sell by date'. Kids brand yogurts - trix yoplait, dannon smash, yo-baby, I allow 1 day after the sell by.