Can food spoil in space?

As there is nothing to support bacterial or fungal (mold) life, I’m going to have to say no, the food will not be spoiled.

But to be fair, I’m not an outerspace foodologist, the classes were simply to hard for me.

i’m no expert, but i imagine it would only delay the inevitable.

EDIT:

i imagine it would just turn in to some kind of sandy dusty thing over time.

If it’s inside the space station and there is air yea, than I think it can happen, outside the space station it will eventually corrode.

Probably not but I would expect some serious freezer burn.

They’d already have bacteria in ‘em, but my guess is that they’d be quickly freezedried.

Raw oysters and sushi just wouldn’t be the same.

Yes, When fruits spoil they release their own gas that continues the spoiling process. Thats why we have the saying “One rotten apple spoils the bunch” because the one apple speeds up the process by releasing its own gasses.

It wouldn’t go off if there’s no bacteria, but it would be frozen solid, and probably brittle enough to crumble into dust.

Yes, it spoils. But when you find it, no one will hear you scream.

Well, yeah, of course it spoils. Just not in the way that you’re used to. That is, it won’t get slimy (nothing you’re used to on Earth will grow on it, which causes—or is—the “slime”), and it won’t smell (because it also won’t decay—in Earth terms—and there’s no air to carry a smell anyway, so it wouldn’t smell “good”, either) and it won’t change color (because none of the first two things are happening). But it will flash dry and freeze as quickly as it’s exposed to the zero atmosphere, and any exposed water (which will have frozen) will transpire off pretty quickly, and you’ll be left with, as @downtide alluded, a sandy, gritty, or dusty piece of trash.

You wouldn’t be able to put it into your mouth anyway, since you’d be suited up—or the same things would be happening to YOU. (And in addition, I think you would very shortly be blowing up, because unlike “food”, you have internal organs and some internal pressures that balance against atmospheric pressure (approximately 7 pounds per square inch of your body surface). Without that atmospheric pressure, and as soon as some part of your body ruptures due to the freeze-drying, you’re going to explode in slow motion. I think.