Here’s the question for you this Foodie Friday. Let’s say you pour yourself a nice hot cup of coffee and go to the fridge for some milk. You notice that the “sell by” date has passed although it was only a few days prior. What do you do? If you’re like most folks, you do the smell test – you sniff the milk to see if it has an off odorand, therefore, might have something wrong with it. It doesn’t have to be with foods that you think might be “off” either. It’s a smart thing to give some produce – melons, for example – a quick sniff because the better, riper stuff has a fresher, more “melon-y” smell.
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Of course, we don’t just use the smell test in the kitchen or the supermarket, and that’s the point today. Continue reading
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