New packaging can warn you when meat has spoiled
Scientists designed color-changing carbon dot biosensors that can detect spoiled meat in sealed packages in real-time, just in case you don't trust the sniff-test.
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I'm sorry faceless downvoters, my bad. My morality was compromised.
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Memegen site images are a better because they exploit a large database of unlicensed copyrighted works to generate images for profit but have been doing it for longer, so it's fine.
Both can be bad. These aren't mutually exclusive.
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Sure, but only if it instead gives people a type of incurable cancer in about 30 years.
Won't that affect Walmarts profits? 🙃
Don't buy at Wallmart
Guy you can't say that! Won't you think of the poor CEO?
options here are 1 corporation that owns a castle and got his balls tickled for decades long price fixing
and walmarts.... there is no good options to shop for food until they are removed from the planet
Where can I donate to your campaign?
they have the rockets 🚀
Pictured is meat with Kirkland branding, which is Costco's in-house brand. Better place to shop than walmart already
3 Ribeyes are currently $67 there. You cracked out? Lol
Looking at my nearest Costco vs Walmart prices
Ribeye choice:
Costco $15.99 / lb
Walmart $23.47 / lb
Ribeye prime
Costco $20.99 / lb
Walmart $27.98 / lb
I was just at Costco yesterday. Then again different prices in different states?
Costco slices their ribeyes thick. 3 at ~1 pound each is right around that prime price.
Cracked out on not buying meat 🤷
With these prices I may go vegan.
Average. 13.99/lb.
That day. 22.99lb.
Understand it just fine.
Thank you come again!
10% off sticker goes brrr
The indicator turns into a "manager's special", no need to pay an employee to slap them on anymore
Gross. 🤣
They're going to make this way too sensitive so people throw away even more food and effective prices get driven up. I guarantee it
After they are legally mandated to use it because selling spoiled meat is profitable.
That's so cool, meat is still gross, but this is unambiguously a fantastic thing for humanity. If it's actually used, I'd have to imagine the less reliable yet ass covering legal expiration date sticker will always be cheaper. Hope this becomes the new mandated standard, innovations are meaningless in the face of uncaring capitalism.
No matter where you buy it, expiration dates are only a general guide, and more of a "date of manufacture" note than anything. We evolved to detect potential food that has gone bad. Trust your senses. Look and smell should be enough to know what's actually gone bad (which is usually past the "expiration" date). You can use something like this as a better guide for when food will actually go bad, but, again, trust your senses.
Where the hell are you buying meat? A friggin' flea market? BS.
I've got a fairly reliable tool that does the same, I keep it in the middle of my face
Anosmia is more common than you might think. A lot of stuff that seems silly on the face of it is hella useful for people with disabilities.
Noses do seem silly on the face of anosmics.
I really walked into that one huh
Sure smells like it!
Average Americans will never see this. This comes at a time when regulations are being removed and meat packers are shooting up beef with red die to make it not look bad and rotten fish is being treated with CO and dies to be sold as fresh fish...
If people don't trust it either, there's also an alternative, reading the package for the expected spoiling date.
That date means nothing. It's a best by date, not an expiration date. It's just the last date you can get a refund if it goes bad.
But I've had a gallon of milk last a whole month after the best by date.
Yeah, the date on the package means even less if you freeze it. Frozen meat is good for years.
(Freeze your ground beef, freeze your bread. Throwing away food is expensive!)
Yes, and freeze sauces, soups, and stews in ice cube trays and then into freezer bags for easy portioning later. This was life changing advice for me.
We use these for soup:
https://www.soupercubes.com/products/silicone-food-freezer-trays?variant=45179217969378
Pricey for glorified ice cube trays, but really convinent to have the soup portioned to size.
This is why I can! I don't have enough freezer space!
I live in an apartment with a very small fridge that has a tiny freezer inside it. I got a small chest freezer that I use for storage. I only use the one in my fridge for freezing stuff, then it moves to the chest freezer.
Do you do meal planning and if so do your plans include your frozen stuff?
When I have energy I sometimes make ravioli or lasagna and freeze it! But it requires energy and freezer space.
Freeze your mom, freeze your dad!
Freeze your recent high school grad!
Freeze the dog, freeze the cat!
Freeze your hurble durble sprat!
Freeze it all or freeze it none,
If it's frozen you have won;
Freezing everything you see
Will grant you immortality!
The expiry date has been a necessary and useful tool, but these dots seem like they could be a good idea if they can actually sense when spoilage happens.
Meat could have been exposed to bad conditions that makes it spoil before the expected date.
But maybe even bigger is that the date is always going to be very much on the side of caution, so it might avoid waste where people tend to bin stuff as soon as the expiry hits, even though that food may still be perfectly good.
I’ve had Milk that lasts a week longer than the expiration date, and I’ve had meat spoil a week before its use-or-freeze-by date
I've had stuff spoil early, or last long past the date. Having a visual chemical indicator would be great.
All meat is spoiled living animal tissues. Way easier way to figure that out :)
No, actually. Spoiled here refers to the edibility by humans (aka the bacteria and toxic waste of said bacteria is below safe levels), and it's no longer living tissue given the animal has been killed and butchered.
Do you live on a dump?
These days the whole planet is a dump unfortunately.
Humans are not herbivores. There are a lot of good social and ethical reasons to not eat meat, this is not one of them.
I envy your ability to speak so confidently from a point of ignorance.
lots of extraordinary claims here, but no proof at all
Bold of you to assume I’m not happily getting plenty of calories from alcohol, especially the past 15ish months
there is no way you are a real person. Troll harder.
Oh. Okay. So maybe I’ll eat nothing but broccoli and pears.
Vitamin B12 has entered the chat.
Shut up.