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shelf life

NOUN
useful life of product
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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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