Coconut milk is a strange substance to begin with: we had a six pack in here not too long ago (Goya, if I recall correctly) as an experiment because we'd never tried it before. So I tried it in my coffee: blech. Then we mixed it into our home made tapioca pudding (which, when made with whole milk, is one of my favorite foods on Earth): yuck (ruined it; made the texture quite mealy, too). Used it in one of my curries: ick (I like yogurt or even sour cream better, with yogurt being by far the best).
Also, it's hard to pour, with about 40% of it clumped up at the bottom of every can while the rest was very runny. I mostly found it quite odd to deal with, though not too bad-tasting by itself.
I haven't checked any of our cans for any such label, though, since this is the first I knew they had such labels! That's good to know (and I'll check, asap). We're having a bit of a food kerfuffle lately because I won't eat anything (besides the coconut milk) but tomato products (for my homemade sauces) out of cans and we have enough canned foods at this point to really add up, beans included, also many vegetables and a good deal of fruit.
I also won't eat beans anymore (and we have bags and bags of beans) because of the side effects, so my diet's changing from OP's quite a bit (Is it edible? He will eat it. I will not, unless it seems safe and is preferably sort of nutritious) and while I'm not sure how happy to feel about it (I miss beans a lot, mostly - canned or dried) it seems silly to turn back on these changes just to make him happy.
Re: expiration dates, that's kinda up to you. Canned foods are said to be perfectly good for years past their dates: if you really want to hang onto one past it's date, I'd open and smell and swish it around and check over what's in it quite carefully before using, is all. (Medicines can last way beyond their expiration dates, too, as long as they've been stored properly, which usually just means "in a cool, dry place").
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Date: 2018-07-16 05:45 am (UTC)From:Also, it's hard to pour, with about 40% of it clumped up at the bottom of every can while the rest was very runny. I mostly found it quite odd to deal with, though not too bad-tasting by itself.
I haven't checked any of our cans for any such label, though, since this is the first I knew they had such labels! That's good to know (and I'll check, asap). We're having a bit of a food kerfuffle lately because I won't eat anything (besides the coconut milk) but tomato products (for my homemade sauces) out of cans and we have enough canned foods at this point to really add up, beans included, also many vegetables and a good deal of fruit.
I also won't eat beans anymore (and we have bags and bags of beans) because of the side effects, so my diet's changing from OP's quite a bit (Is it edible? He will eat it. I will not, unless it seems safe and is preferably sort of nutritious) and while I'm not sure how happy to feel about it (I miss beans a lot, mostly - canned or dried) it seems silly to turn back on these changes just to make him happy.
Re: expiration dates, that's kinda up to you. Canned foods are said to be perfectly good for years past their dates: if you really want to hang onto one past it's date, I'd open and smell and swish it around and check over what's in it quite carefully before using, is all. (Medicines can last way beyond their expiration dates, too, as long as they've been stored properly, which usually just means "in a cool, dry place").