shelf life
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They are typically made with refined fats, oils, sugars, starches, salts, and other additives designed to improve flavor, texture, and shelf life, often while lowering nutritional quality.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
"We don't have the ability to stockpile blood super far in advance because blood does have a finite shelf life, it does expire," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Usually, by holding off upgrades until then, you get a new device with a longer shelf life or, at the very least, the price drops on last year’s models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
It’s bold, heavily angled and has a short shelf life?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Some had cases of “survival crackers”—bulgur wheat blocks with an estimated shelf life of three thousand years.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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