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My 'all natural' smoothie turned my kitchen into a science experiment
Bought a bottle of '100% natural' green juice from the Fresh Mart in Denver last Tuesday, and the thing started FERMENTING after two days in the fridge. It was bubbling and the cap was bulging, which is NOT what I expect from something with no preservatives. Has anyone else had a 'healthy' drink go bad way faster than the label promised?
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aaronsullivan2mo ago
Bulging caps are a whole new level of scary for fridge leftovers. That juice basically turned into a tiny bomb. Makes you question the whole "natural" label when it acts like a yeast experiment.
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nguyen.blake2mo ago
Oh man, that sounds like a total mess to clean up. Those "no preservative" drinks can really go rogue fast, especially if the store didn't keep them cold the whole time. Makes you wonder how long it was just sitting out before you bought it. I'd be so annoyed.
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blakestone6d ago
Hold on, I gotta push back on this a little. @marydavis has a point about the hot truck, but the whole point of no preservatives is that stuff spoils, that's literally what natural means. That bubbling and bulging cap is actually a sign it's doing what nature intended, fermenting into a sort of kombucha or vinegar. You probably just got a bottle that was a little more alive than others, but that's kind of the tradeoff you sign up for when you skip the chemicals. If you wanted something that sits in your fridge for three weeks without changing, you'd buy the sugary shelf-stable stuff, not the 'all natural' one. This is more of a lesson in buying smaller bottles or drinking them faster, not a problem with the label.
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