Expired Yogurt

[skinnyminny]

The other morning I packed my lunch early and did not notice the bottom of my yogurt said best by Sept 17, and for some reasdon noticed it after I ate it! It was thin now that I think about it and that was about 48 hours ago and Im not sick yet knock on wood! But does anyone think Ill get sick still????

[Lisa]

The other morning I packed my lunch early and did not notice the bottom of my yogurt said best by Sept 17, and for some reasdon noticed it after I ate it! It was thin now that I think about it and that was about 48 hours ago and Im not sick yet knock on wood! But does anyone think Ill get sick still????

I think that if you ate bad yogurt, you would know it by now.

[purple]

Yogurt is usually still good a couple of weeks after the expiration date or longer as long as its been kept cold. I think the "good guys" protect it

[psawyer]

Expiry dates are always conservative. You can generally assume a fudge factor, but it should be based on the claimed shelf life. Many canned foods have a claimed life of two years, and will still be safe several months beyond the expiry date. Meat has a life in days, so I would not give it more than a day or two. Use your own judgment, but don't consider an expiry date to be absolute.

Best my dates are even more elastic than expiry dates. "Best by" means just that: the product will begin to be less-than-best, but still safe for consumption.

[ShayFL]

I always my whole life ate expired yogurt up to a week or so after expiration. Never had a problem. If kept cold, it should be just fine.

After a week expired I would tend to use the yogurt in cooking then up to 2 weeks after expiry.

You are fine.

[lpellegr]

I have eaten 6 months expired yogurt and lived to tell the tale (more than once - okay, I'm not good at keeping up with what's in the fridge). If it is unopened and looks and smells fine upon opening, go ahead. Heck, it's just spoiled milk anyway, but spoiled in a precise and specific way. I expect that the live cultures will be dead soon after the expiration date but the yogurt itself will be fine if unopened and refrigerated.

[purple]

Two days ago I ate a soy yogurt (never tried it before) that was expired by 2 weeks and my tummy gurgled a few times so I took a probiotic and I was fine. That was the only thing I ate out of the ordinary that day. I have never had it happen before with dairy yogurt.