u/OutrageousHome2377 — reddlx

Powdered peanut butter stored in heatwave?

Sorry, this is gonna sound stupid, but food anxiety is bad lately.

I have a couple of tubs of defatted powdered peanut butter in my bedroom. One is opened, two are still sealed. We've had several weeks of heatwaves here, 37°C to 34°C most days. My house doesn't have air-conditioning, but I've mostly kept the curtains closed. I have no idea what temperatures my room actually reaches. I didn't leave it by the window.

Is this going to make the powdered peanut butter unsafe? The opened one is in a tub, lid screwed on, and placed inside a zip lock bag.

Thank you for your help. Sorry for asking dumb questions, its the anxiety giving me brain worms.

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u/OutrageousHome2377 — 7 hours ago

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Are my dog's gums considered pale?

I posted this in r/DogAdvice yesterday. Several people told me his gums looked normal, but one person told me he needs urgent medical care and it freaked me out and i can't stop thinking about it.

I'm away from home right now on vacation (he's with me) and i can't get to a vet until Monday. I don't know if this is considered an emergency or not.

For context, he has absolutely no abnornal symptoms and has been perfectly active and eating normally. I only looked in his mouth because I'm scheduling to have his teeth professionally cleaned very soon and i was checking on his tartar. Then I started staring at the pink parts of his gums and started wondering if they're considered pale or not? I don't have any old photos of his gums so I can't compare if this is normal for him or not. His last check up was in April and the vet was happy at the time. He has no new symptoms since then.

It's the pink color I was concerned about, as my understanding is the brown and black mottling is fine? I wasn't worried until I had one person on my last reddit saying he would need a blood transfusion and now I can't sleep.

Thank you for your help.

u/OutrageousHome2377 — 20 days ago

▲ 1 r/foodsafety

Bread during a heatwave? How badly will it be affected?

This is a really dumb question, but I've been having really bad anxiety for the last few months and this is what's keeping lying awake in bed tonight I guess.

We're just heading into a heatwave of around 30°C to 33°C where i live. Today was the first day. I have all my shelf-stable food in my bedroom right now because we're having work done in our kitchen. I have bread in here (protein bagels, no filling, still in their packaging) and I'm kind of worried the heat is gonna make it unsafe to eat? We don't have air-conditioning in our house and we don't have any thermostats so I have absolutely no idea what temperature it is inside my room. There's only one window and the food wasn't near it, but it can feel pretty stuffy.

I know that heatwaves can make bread go moldy faster, so I'm kind of worried that it being left in my room all day in high temperature is gonna make it unsafe.

I was going to eat it tomorrow and it has 6 days left before the expiration date, but i just need someone to tell me how much of a problem it's likely to be. Anxiety has been kicking my ass lately and I have no idea what's reasonable and what isn't anymore lol

Thanks for your help. I'll probably delete this later because it's stupid.

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u/OutrageousHome2377 — 1 month ago

▲ 0 r/foodsafety

Cosmetic dents? On energy drink can

I have contamination OCD so please be understanding. I feel like this is probably fine but one of my OCD symptoms means I can't trust myself and need to hear something is okay from another person in order for me to believe it.

I see these little dents on the side of drink cans I buy all the time, and I never know if they're okay because they're at the bottom edge. Does this count as a bottom seam and should be avoided, or is it fine?

Everything is otherwise normal, they're pretty small. I buy multipacks and it's where the cans have jostled together.
Thank you so much for your help.

u/OutrageousHome2377 — 2 months ago