New Findings for Long Term Food Storage
 

New Findings for Longer-Term Food Storage
http://www.providentliving.org/conte...4222-1,00.html

Findings of recent scientific studies conducted by a team of researchers at Brigham Young University show that properly packaged, low-moisture foods stored at room temperature or cooler (75�F/24�C or lower) remain nutritious and edible much longer than previously thought. The studies, which are the first of their kind, increase the estimated shelf life for many products to 30 years or more (see chart for new estimates of shelf life). Previous estimates of longevity were based on "best-if-used-by" recommendations and experience. Though not studied, sugar, salt, baking soda (essential for soaking beans), and vitamin C in tablet form also store well long-term. Some basic foods do need more frequent rotation, such as vegetable oil every 1 to 2 years.

While there is a decline in nutritional quality and taste over time, depending on the original quality of food and how it was processed, packaged, and stored, the studies show that even after being stored long-term, the food will help sustain life in an emergency.

http://www.theideadoor.com/FoodStorage.html

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This makes me want to invest in an oil press and some olive trees...

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Olive oil will store for a LONG time.
Really long.
I was eating 1940's vintage c-ration cans in 1974.
once in A while we had a bulged can, or opened up an obviously BAD can, but mostly they were edible. ( we were young kids, playing "army", going camping, etc.)

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i thought all oils go bad w/in a year due to their chemical structure

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I've had a bottle of olive oil for 6 years (I rarely cook with it), and used it about two weeks ago. Smelt fine, poured fine, and tasted fine. And I'd say that bottle has had the cap off and been open to air for around 1/4 of those 6 years - I am a lazy cook!
This is in the UK, we don't get the hot temps like some parts of the US - but 6 years with 18 months exposed to air is fine in my book.

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:D So it was fishy?

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I have not read on a package of beans to soak them in baking soda? What is this about? Did I miss something?

"baking soda (essential for soaking beans)"

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essential for reducing flatulance...

I soak the beans in baking soda overnight, then rinse.

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I assure you, this oil is RANCID. Fats are delicate and go bad quickly. Oxygen and light are the fats ememy. Even stored in dark and air tight, they will last only a year or so. They may seem edible, but are no longer healthful.

Processing, light, and air conspire to change the electrical bonding. Once rancid there can no longer be an exchange of electrons from oil to cell in the body.

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I can assure YOU, it is not rancid. It is stored in the dark, yes, but has been airtight for only most of the 6 years. I know the taste of a rancid oil, fat, butter - and this is not rancid.
Also, not all fats are delicate. Dairy derived fats are. And please stop trying to feed me the pseudo-science BS unless you have a source to back it up. In conclusion, shut your whore mouth, or provide sources to back up the rubbish you are claiming.

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My whore mouth says the source is Dr. Johanna Budwig, the world's leading authority on fats. Her work is widely cited and most well respected. It is NOT pseudo-anything! Now go read the fabulous works of Dr. Budwig and then stick the books up your rancid arse!

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:D Wicked right cross.

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Oh, you mean Dr. Budwig, who touted flax oil and cottage cheese as the cure for cancer, and was born in 1908? Things have come a Looooong way since then - and besides, she is dead and I am not. Sadly, her cures for cancer have been disproven repeatedly - by people dying.
She was certainly a great woman, and some of her research into the effect of oils on the diet still stands, but a lot of what she published has since been shown to be smoke and mirrors.

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Times of crisis produce stress - possibly physical, but always
mental. If you are suddenly forced to eat a diet both alien and
monotonous, it is going to add that much more stress on top
of what you are already dealing with. If your planning in-
cludes the elderly, young children, and/or infants there is a
significant risk they will quit eating or refuse to eat sufficient
amounts of the right foods leaving them unable to survive.
This is not a trivial problem and should be given serious
consideration. When it�s wheat, day in and day out, wheat�s
going to start becoming unpopular fast. Far better to have a
variety of foods on hand to forestall appetite fatigue and, more
importantly, to use those storable foods in your everyday
diet so that you�ll be accustomed to eating them. In his
book, Making the Best of Basics, James Stevens men-
tions a post-WWII study by Dr. Norman Wright, of the Brit-
ish Food Ministry, which found the people of England and
Europe were more likely to reject unfamiliar or distasteful
foods during times of stress than under normal conditions.
Consider the positive aspects of adding variety and com-
fort foods to your storage program.

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Beans, when stored for long periods (more than, say, 8 or 9 years) harden and then become difficult to soften, even if you cook them all day long. Adding a couple of pinches of baking soda to the soaking/cooking water supposedly solves this problem. While it also destroys the B vitamins, these can be restored by adding a some yeast flakes to the beans just before serving. So the baking soda is good for more than just reducing flatulance. If you have really old beans and no baking soda, you might have to grind them to make them usable.

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'Some basic foods do need more frequent rotation, such as vegetable oil every 1 to 2 years.'

then vegetable oil is worthless to prepping.
1-2 months is not even short term storage.

I did not know olive oil had such a long storage life though...good to know.

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Nor did I....I have a bottle of Bertolli Olive Oil with an expiration date of April 09. Should I trust it? :confused_ma:

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I just had a big old bowl of pasta with lo-salt and 6 year old olive oil. Deeee-f*cking licious. Rancid? No. Real world experience > crap from books.

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No, it'll be rancid and probably kil you.:D

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21707258/

Salad dressing found in ancient shipwreck

Researchers found 2,400-year-old remnants of olive oil and oregano

The oregano may have done more than just flavor the oil. "If you go up into the hills of Greece today, the older generation of women know that adding oregano, thyme or sage not just flavors the oil, but helps preserve it longer," Foley said. The ancient Greeks may have used herbs � and the antioxidants in them � to intentionally help preserve the oil, and possibly accidentally helped preserve the DNA the researchers sampled more than two millennia later.

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Yeah, we all know books are for losers. :confused_ma:Good luck dude, you need it. How old are you anyway, 10 or 11?

And no way Budwig's work has been disproven. By whom? Corrupt conventional medicine?

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Ah yes, the old c-rations--know them well. You are right--I did the same in the 70's.