Why do cured, dried, and canned foods last so much longer than fresh foods?

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Doesn’t the flesh decay?

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Foods mostly “spoil” from bacteria and fungi eating them and excreting waste that tastes bad or is even toxic.

Curing or drying makes the food much less edible for fungi and bacteria.

Canning seals the food away from fungi and bacteria and then the can/jar is heated hot enough to kill the fungi/bacteria that’s already there.

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