A fruitcake with its historical roots tracing back to over a century ago has been recently found perfectly preserved in a hut based at Cape Adare, east Antarctica. /Antarctic Heritage Trust Photo

Made by British brand Huntley & Palmer, the cake wrapped in its original paper and encased in a tin-plated iron alloy box was believed to have been left over by a surviving group of an ill-fated expedition to the South Pole between 1910 and 1913 led by British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. /Antarctic Heritage Trust Photo

Despite the deteriorating tin case, the cake still looked and even smelled “almost edible,” according to researchers from the Antarctic Heritage Trust who unearthed the food while excavating the abandoned hut some 2,500 miles from the South Pole. Lizzie Meek, a manager from the New Zealand based Trust said in a statement that the cake would have been an “ideal high-energy food for Antarctic conditions” and is still a favorite item on modern trips to the far south./Antarctic Heritage Trust Photo