40 Year Old Food Storage Taste Test

My wife's grandpa dug up some food storage canned in 1975 in #10 cans. We busted it out on a ReadyMan LiveFeed and tested it against fresh dried and freeze-dried food storage. Here are the results:

- Wheat: 40 year old wheat tastes almost exactly like this year's wheat.
- Rice: 40 year old rice is barely edible. It doesn't have that starchy flavor of fresh rice and it smells like your grandma's basement. If you don't smell it, it's edible. Kind of. I'd save it for dog food.
- Dried Milk: 40 year old dried milk tastes just as bad as it did fresh. It wasn't any worse than the fresh stuff. So, I guess that's good.
- Peanut Butter (not dried): Tasted perfect. Hadn't separated at all. And it was in a cardboard can.
- Pineapple chunks: 40 year old was heavily crystalized but tasted basically OK. The color was black.
- Peas (dried): Smelled absolutely nasty but tasted barely edible. Dog food unless totally desperate.
- Apples (dried): Tasted almost fine.
- Carrots: hard as a rock and probably not edible.
- Prunes: rock-hard and tasted funky.
- Corn Starch: tasted absolutely stale. We didn't bake it though.
- Dried Eggs: instant gag reflex.
- Dried Brown Gravy: even worse gag reflex.
- Spinach: inedible.
- Cabbage: inedible.

Three of us ate a little of everything and nobody reported feeling sick. I was worried about mold, but none was apparent.

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40 Year Old Food Storage Taste Test