What Is The Shelf Life Of A Twinkie

Twinkies do in fact contain real food they are truly baked and the official shelf life is a mere 25 days.

The secret to twinkies longevity is their lack of dairy ingredients because dairy products are not part of the formula twinkies spoil much more slowly than other bakery items. A company executive told the new york times in 2000 that the twinkie is on the shelf no more than 7 to 10 days the maximum shelf life was reported to have been 26 days until the addition of stronger preservatives made beginning in 2012 increased it to 45 days. Twinkies have a shelf life of twenty five days not seven years and certainly not fifty years. In reality twinkies are on the shelf for a short time.

Even so twenty five days is an unusually long time for a baked product to stay fresh. After this time the twinkie will continue to exist but will diminish greatly in taste and texture.