I go through a lot of canned chickpeasargumentsaquafaba’d
When I roast a bunch
It’s not a trick question. That is what you should do with leftover canned food, as opposed to covering the opened can and sticking it in the fridge. But why? The reason has nothing to do with food safety, or metal or chemicals from the can corroding and leaching into the food.
Concerns about one chemical in particular, Bisphenol-Aongoing debateconflicting researcheffect of our exposure
The FDA’s current position is that the use of BPA in food packaging is safe, though the agency acknowledges it’s an issueThis report
For acidic foods such as canned tomatoes, metal leaching out from the lining of the can is a possibility, says Carl Batt, a professor of food microbiology at Cornell University.
But “can corrosion,” as the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service calls it, develops over several years before it starts to affect the food inside the can.
