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>>18020833
Sure,

1. In most K-cups we take most almost all the oxygen out and fill it with Nitrogen. In our standards quality testing the mean oxygen in a K-cup is below 5% this keeps it fresher longer, but it also means that the K-cups you buy at the grocery store were most likely made 6 months to a year ago. While the coffee is still good and non spoiled it means that it loses a little bit of taste. It is similar to buying ground coffee. You can actually see which day the coffee was put into the cup if you look up the Julian Date etched on the cup or on the carton. K cups are food safe up to 4 years after they are made but we "expire them" after 2 years for both flavor and consumer preferences. Certain brands (primarily Starbucks) do an 18 month expiration... And every since we bought Dr. Pepper our Green Mountain Coffee brand (the small coffee roaster that bought Keurig and then bought Dr Pepper.) has been slowly devolving into shit.