What Is An Oxygen Absorber?
If all of this messing about with gasses sounds like too much trouble, you can try using oxygen absorption packets. I don’t know exactly when they first showed up on the market for use by private individuals, but they are a relatively recent tool for long term food storage. The packets,one brand is Ageless Z300E from the Mitsubishi corporation, absorb free oxygen from the air around them and chemically bind it. This removes it from being available for other purposes such as oxidative rancidity and respiration by insects or bacteria. The practical upshot of all this is that by removing the free oxygen from your storage containers, you can greatly extend the storage life of the foods in the containers. Finding any information about these absorbers has been difficult, but, thanks to Al Durtschi, I was able to find a study of their effectiveness from Brigham Young University. The study tested the absorption capacity of the Ageless Z300E packets. It found they were even more effective than
If all of this messing about with gasses sounds like too much trouble, you can try using oxygen absorption packets. I don’t know exactly when they first showed up on the market for use by private individuals, but they are a relatively recent tool for long term food storage. The packets,one brand is Ageless Z300E from the Mitsubishi corporation, absorb free oxygen from the air around them and chemically bind it. This removes it from being available for other purposes such as oxidative rancidity and respiration by insects or bacteria. The practical upshot of all this is that by removing the free oxygen from your storage containers, you can greatly extend the storage life of the foods in the containers. Finding any information about these absorbers has been difficult, but, thanks to Al Durtschi, I was able to find a study of their effectiveness from Brigham Young University. The study tested the absorption capacity of the Ageless Z300E packets. It found they were even more effective than
