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Anonymous

Nov 28, 2024

How does Yoohoo milk stay good for so long without being refrigerated?

I recently bought a package of Yoo-hoo chocolate drink that had an expiration date a year from now. Initially, I treated it like any other processed food or drink without giving it much thought, until I realized it was milk! Fresh milk typically lasts only about two weeks, and even the chocolate milk available in stores generally has a similar shelf life. What intrigues me is that Yoo-hoo can last for a full year and doesn't require refrigeration until it's opened. How is this possible? Is it vacuum sealed or treated in a certain way? Does this packaging method affect its shelf life? Thank you!

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Anonymous

Dec 01, 2024

"1) Yoo-hoo doesn't have an expiration date. It's pasteurized in the can or bottle, and, so long as the container remains sealed, it won't go bad. Ingredients may separate a tad – hence the chocolatey sludge at the bottom of any vintage of bottle, but any true-blue 'Hoo-ligan knows you've just got to shake it up.

4) Yoo-hoo is actually NOT chocolate milk (though it does contain a small amount of non-fat dry milk), hence the now-retired tagline, "If only milk tasted this good."

sorry for the corniness, i took this from the yoohoo facebook page.

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Anonymous

Jan 11, 2025

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How does Yoohoo milk stay good for so long without being refrigerated?

I just bought a package of yoohoo milk the other day that had an expiration date a year from now. Treating it like any other processed food/ drink i didn't think twice about it, until I realized it was milk! I mean, fresh milk usually just lasts two weeks max, and even the chocolate milks they...

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Anonymous

Oct 30, 2024

Its not preservatives - anything that would make milk last that long wouldn't be allowed anywhere near food. It is UHT milk or longlife milk. The milk is homogenised and then heated to a very high temperature inside a pressurised system and that kills all living organisms in the milk. This UHT milk is sterile

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Anonymous

Jan 01, 2025

It is not milk, right? Just a Chocolate flavored drink? If it is milk, then it is like the milks that come in non Chocolate that are in little boxed like juice boxes. It is basically "canned" milk. Canning sterilizes the product and keeps the air (which is full of bacterias) from coming into contact with it, which then makes it free from bacterial growth/spoilage.

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Anonymous

Nov 11, 2024

Read the ingredients.

Is there ANY milk in it?

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Anonymous

Nov 28, 2024

there's probably powdered milk in it along with all those preservatives

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Eloisa Senger

Nov 13, 2024

Preservatives. Lots of preservatives. It is quite unhealthy, really.

-Joe E Dangerously

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Anonymous

Jan 30, 2025

there is a lot of chemicals in it so it doesn't have to be refrigerated anyway. answer mine please =] http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201010...

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