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Would you eat a two-week-old sandwich?
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T.K. RandallJuly 7, 2011 ·
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British food technologists are launching a type of long-life sandwich that stays fresh for weeks.
The trick is to flush oxygen from the packaging and replace it with carbon dioxide and nitrogen, the mayonnaise is also more acidic to stop the fillings from deteorating. "The product is as fresh on day 14 as it is on day one," says Ray Boggiano who has spent a year developing the sandwich.
A two-week-old sandwich doesn’t seem a terribly appetising prospect – bread so stale it’s started to curl at the corners and a filling that’s only distantly related to what it says on the label. But, according to food scientists, we’ll soon be able to buy and safely eat sandwiches that remain as fresh on day 14 as they were when they were put together.
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Daily Mail |
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