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Dehydrated food shelf life
« on: September 04, 2010, 10:12:03 PM »
http://survivalacres.com/information/shelflife.html

Below is a chart to help you determine the shelf life of food stored in air tight containers at constant temperature of 70 degrees. ** All of the following products will store proportionally longer at cooler temperatures if kept at lower storage temperatures. Shelf life of 30+ years is perfectly feasible for many products!
 
Item                               Years
Apples                               30         
Adzuki Beans                       8 - 10

Gluten                                5
Powder Eggs                      15

Alfalfa Seeds                       8 
Granola                              5

Powder Milk                        20
All Purpose Flour                  15 

Great Northern                    15
Quinoa                                8
Bakers Flour                        15 

Groats                                8
Refried Beans                      5

Barley                                10 
Hard Red Wheat                   25 - 30
 
Ribbons                              8 - 15
Black Turtle Beans                15 - 20
 
Hard White Wheat                25 - 30
Rolled Oats                          30

Blackeye Beans                    15 -20
Honey, Salt and Sugar           Indefinitely

Rye                                    8
Broccoli                               8 - 10

Hulled Oats                          30
Small Red Beans                    8 - 10

Brown Rice                           6 
Kamut                                 8 - 12

Soft wheat                           25
Buckwheat                           15

Kidney Beans                        20
Soy Beans                            8 - 10

Butter/margarine Powder         15
Lentils                                 20

Spaghetti                             15 -20 
Cabbage                              8 - 10

Lima Beans                           20
Special bakery wheat             25 

Carrots                                8 - 10
Macaroni                              15 - 20

Spelt                                   12
Celery                                  8 - 10

Millet                                   8 - 12
Sprouting Seeds                    4-5

Cheese Powder                      15
Mixes                                   5 - 10

Triticale                                8 - 12
Cocoa Powder                        15

Morning Moo                          10
TVP                                     15 - 20

Corn                                     8 - 12
Mung Beans                           8 - 10

Unbleached Flour                    5
Cornmeal                               5

Noodles                                 8 - 10
Wheat flakes                          15

Cracked wheat                       25
Onions                                  8 - 12
 
Whey Powder                         15
Durham Wheat                        8 - 12

Peanut Butter Powder              4 - 5
White Flour                            5

Flax                                      8 - 12
Pearled Oats                          10

White Rice                             8 - 10
Fruit                                     5

Peppers                                 8 - 12
Whole Wheat Flour                  5

Garbanzo Beans                      15 - 20 
Pink Beans                             20 - 30
 
Yeast                                    2
Garden Seeds                         4

Pinto Beans                            20 - 30
Germade                                5

Potatoes (flakes, slices, dices)  20 - 30
     
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Re: Dehydrated food shelf life
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2010, 12:07:43 AM »
Good stuff.  My dehydrators have had a good workout this summer and will probably keep going until Xmas with potatoes being blighted here this year.

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Re: Dehydrated food shelf life
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2010, 12:48:49 AM »
The website also recommends (as do I) to put oxygen absorbers in with your dehydrated food. That assumes that you have it sealed in an air tight medium like a glass canning jar or heat sealed mylar bags.
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Re: Dehydrated food shelf life
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2010, 11:27:06 AM »
I just used up the last of the 2004 dehydrated tomato powder last winter.  No loss of color, flavor etc.  They were stored in recycled food grade plastic containers with screw on lids.  The containers are white, so labeling is easy.  I added a line of packing tape around the lid/jar seam and stored them in an unheated outbuilding in a windowless room. (cool, dry, dark)

Storing what we eat and eating what we store; is the only way we have found to deal with storage, inventory rotation etc issues.  The maximum shelf life issue is for things like dehydrated potato.  If a couple years from now we are blight free, and all that would take is a low rainfall year; I will be disinclined to be using dehydrated potatoes.  Storage potatoes are way easier, particularly when we have the  coldroom storage space for them.  Then I will shrink wrap the containers to guarantee air tight for the longer term and label with a best before date.

 

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