Can I eat this? Dried Apricot Edition

May 23, 2023 6:42 PM

I left two pounds of dried apricots in a metal mailbox for two days in eighty-degree heat. They were sealed in plastic. When I retrieved them it was like holding a radiating heat pack. It's dried fruit; it's gotta be ok to eat, right? Right? They went into the freezer.
posted by zeek321 to Food & Drink (5 answers total)

Yes.
posted by Jon_Evil at 6:46 PM on May 23 [1 favorite]

They are fine. They had worse when they were sitting in a shipping container in Istanbul for a few weeks or months.
posted by rockindata at 6:57 PM on May 23 [18 favorites]

Yeah, totally - you don't need to keep them in the freezer either.
posted by coffeecat at 7:28 PM on May 23 [1 favorite]

I'd eat those with no concern whatsoever.
posted by Dip Flash at 8:20 PM on May 23 [2 favorites]

Yep, swallow those things down!
posted by dg at 5:02 PM on May 24