• bstix@feddit.dk
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      1 year ago

      It’s just water and flavour. Nothing dangerous about it, except for the wooden stick.

      • idkwhatimdoing@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        So you’d drink weeks-old kool-ade if it hadn’t been refrigerated? Water and sugar is an ideal breeding ground and food source for a vast number of different bacteria.

        • tate@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 year ago

          relevant user name.

          Ever notice that you don’t need to refrigerate candy? Processed sugar is such a bad food source for bacteria, you can actually use it as a preservative. The melted Popsicle will rot eventually, if it stays wet, but the likely first organism in will be a yeast.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        Water is like the best environment there is for microorganisms.

        Freezing doesn’t make unsafe food safe, it can only keep already safe food, safe.

        If something frozen, anything, was unfrozen at any point, you can’t know for how long, or in what conditions. Hence, re-frozen products should not be consumed.

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          1 year ago

          Literally nothing can live in pure water. What matters is everything else in the Popsicle, which is mostly processed sugar. Processed sugar is a preservative and will prevent bacterial growth.