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Mylar and Storage

How to Store Freeze Dried Food: The Complete Storage Guide

To store freeze dried food, seal it dry, dark, cool, and airtight: mylar bags with a correctly sized oxygen absorber for long-term loads, or canning jars with an absorber for anything you’ll eat within a year. Get those four variables right and commonly reported shelf life runs into years. Get the moisture or oxygen wrong, […]

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