Go ahead and eat 50-day-old carrots
Posted: Mar 13th 2008 2:26PM by Martha Edwards
Filed under: Food and Nutrition, Healthy Habits, Organic, Vegetarian
In our house, we tend to keep food in our fridge for longer than most people. It's part laziness, part iron stomachs and part frugality, but whatever the cause, I'm often left scratching my head wondering if I should use a certain ingredient in my next meal. But I recently came across
this handy timeline for storing common fruits and veggies:
- Carrot (peeled): 51 days
- Tomato: 36 days
- Garlic: 30 days
- Broccoli: 27 days
- Strawberry: 22 days
- Asparagus: 22 days
- Spinach: 19 days
- Grapes (black and green): 14 days
- Peppers (red and green): 14 days
- Cucumber: 8 days
- Lettuce: 8 days
Surprising, yes? I thought the times on many of these were much shorter. This is good news though, particularly for those month-old carrots in the back of my fridge.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-13-2008 @ 6:24PM
megan said...
Is this just if they don't go moldy first?
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3-13-2008 @ 6:04PM
Martha Edwards said...
Um, good point -- haha!