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In this article, I’ve shown you in detail how to know if turkey meat has gone bad. You can almost always tell whether a piece or pack of turkey meat has gone bad by observing color. Then, ensure that it\u2019s not smelly or sticky or slimy. If the whole or ground turkey turns greyish, this is a sure sign that you have spoiled meat. Poultry meat should have a light pink skin if possible. However, the flesh of turkey drumsticks is generally slightly darker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are rules regarding the storage of white meat such as turkey. Otherwise, the meat can go bad really quick, transmitting bacteria that cause food poisoning every year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The main diseases transferrable to those who eat bad turkey meat are Escherichia coli and salmonella. Due to these reasons, it is of utmost importance to recognize spoiled turkey, not just based on a bad smell, but on other features as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greyish discoloration; unpleasant odor or sweet smell; slimy, sticky, or spongy texture \u2013 these are the surefire signs that you must throw that pack of turkey meat away. I know it’s heartbreaking to keep your Thanksgiving turkey refrigerated for so long, thinking you have something for the big day. Then, you defrost the meat, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7887"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19760,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions\/19760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7887"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=7887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}