Eating Yogurt Left Out Overnight
The risks of eating unrefrigerated yogurt.
Eating yogurt left out overnight. How long can yogurt sit out. It still is used in many parts of the world. Yogurt is actually made that way milk left overnight or longer to ferment in hot room temperature. How long yogurt can be unrefrigerated depends on the room temperature.
That s a small window out there. How long can yogurt sit out. According to the u s. Any longer than that and you should throw it out.
According to foodsafety gov yogurt is not advisable to be consumed after it s been kept out in room temperature for over two hours. Not just yogurt it applies to most of the dairy products like buttermilk eggs milk and eggnogs. This guideline also applies when it s taken out of the fridge for a snack. I regularly end up eating it 3 or 4 weeks after the sell by date.
Department of health human services yogurt can sit at room temperature for 2 hours. However if the temperature exceeds 90 f yogurt can sit outside the refrigerator for no longer than one hour. Yogurt turns bad if kept for more than two hours in the room temperature above 40 degrees fahrenheit. We have discussed many times on quora that lactic fermented milks of many types were in use centuries before anyone thought of refrigeration.
It thought i d post on here rather than doing a whole new thread on the question i have. On the contrary food science expert jeff potter believes that yogurt can be left outside the refrigerator for eight hours because the temperature where the microorganisms grow isn t quite alright. Yogurt lasts for ever. According to the u s department of heath human services yogurt should be discarded after two hours of sitting out at room temperature between 41 f and 90 f.
Perfectly safe provided it was made from pasteurized milk. The only problem that you have to deal is the warm taste which can be unpalatable for some people.