Shelf Life of Tapioca

Re:Shelf Life of Tapioca (CCinNJ)

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:40:33 GMT

It's funny that someone would think to give away Tapioca that's from a store that closed two years prior to the gift.

Re:Shelf Life of Tapioca (felix4067)

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:32:53 GMT

Ack, sorry. Got sucked into replying to a three-year-old thread. No more posting before I finish my coffee!

Re:Shelf Life of Tapioca (seafarer john)

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:35:45 GMT

That almost explains the longevity of our tapioca. I understand it was a biproduct of uranium mining someplace in the west...

Cheers, John

Re:Shelf Life of Tapioca (Michael Hoffman)

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:00:20 GMT

I used to drink with a guy who had a tapioca mine outside Coalinga, California. It was right next to his mercury mine.

I guess that's why his tapioca was so shiny.

Re:Shelf Life of Tapioca (seafarer john)

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:17:40 GMT

We make tapioca pudding from time to time using the small minute tapioca from a sealed jar that must be at least 10 years old, and it works just fine. Our experience seems to confirm that minute tapioca has a shelf life of approximately forever.

Cheers, John

Re:Shelf Life of Tapioca (doggydaddy)

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:52:09 GMT

I would use it. I think that throwing out food due to a perceived thought that it is 'less than fresh'. is wrong. Unless you see mold, discolorization or they are sticking together, I feel it should be okay.

mark

Re:Shelf Life of Tapioca (jman)

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:41:56 GMT

The shelf life of unopened tapioca pearls is 6 mos. to a year. They may have been beyond their shelf life when you got them.

Typically, a bulk food store buys flour, meal, and other dry staples in 50-pound bags and repackages them into 1-2 pound bags as needed.

If you were to walk back into their warehouse, you might see a pallet of 50-pound bags of Gold Meadow flour. This pallet might last them for a year or more.

I don't recommend buying these types of items from a bulk food store. You don't know how old it really is, the initial quality isn't any better than what you can buy in a supermarket, and the price per pound is usually higher than what you'd pay in a supermarket.

Bulk food stores have some good well-priced products, but flour, meal, and other dry staple items aren't included in that category.

Shelf Life of Tapioca (bbqjimbob)

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:17:50 GMT

Someone gave me a pound of large pearl tapioca that you soak and then cook with milk, sugar, eggs, etc, to make tapioca pudding. It came from a bulk food store that closed about 2 years ago. There is no date of any kind on the bag. Would it still be OK to use? Is there a shelf life on tapioca pearls?

Thanks for any help- I appreciate it!