{"id":160793,"date":"2023-03-22T16:27:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T21:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/these-french-fries-last-90-days-outside-the-fridge-or-freezer"},"modified":"2023-03-22T16:27:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T21:27:25","slug":"these-french-fries-last-90-days-outside-the-fridge-or-freezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/these-french-fries-last-90-days-outside-the-fridge-or-freezer","title":{"rendered":"These French Fries Last 90 Days Outside the Fridge or Freezer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-french-fries-last-90-days-outside-the-fridge-or-freezer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Food tech startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fartherfarms.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Farther Farms<\/a> has developed a process that keeps foods that would normally need to be refrigerated or frozen fresh at room temperature \u2014 and their first product is a bag of shelf-stable French fries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The cold chain:<\/strong> Microorganisms are a major cause of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/articles\/food-contamination-sensor\">food spoilage<\/a>, and they thrive at room temperature. By keeping some foods cold, we can slow the growth of these microbes, extending the life of the food.<\/p>\n<p>To do that, the foods must be prepared, shipped, and stored along a temperature-controlled supply chain (a \u201ccold chain\u201d). If the cold chain is broken at any point along the way, the food may quickly become unsafe to eat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food tech startup Farther Farms has developed a process that keeps foods that would normally need to be refrigerated or frozen fresh at room temperature \u2014 and their first product is a bag of shelf-stable French fries. The cold chain: Microorganisms are a major cause of food spoilage, and they thrive at room temperature. By [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1506,269,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-food","category-life-extension","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}