Protect Your Food Storage from These 6 Major Risks
To efficiently maintain, protect, and safeguard the food items during long durations of storage, transportation, cargo, and packaging is an important yet challenging task. As the food products are more prone to and susceptible to damage and spoilage due to excess oxygen or moisture in the surrounding air, they need to be protected and packaged properly to keep them fresh and potent throughout their shelf life as well as consumption period.
Oxygen absorbers are a great packaging solution that can be used along with the storage and packaging of food items and products that help maintain the necessary and optimal levels required to keep them fresh, safe, and potent throughout. They are safe to be used with food products and do not react or alter the food quality even when used with them during packaging.
The 6 Major Risks Involved in Food Storage & Packaging
Here is the list of major risks that are involved during the long durations of food storage and packaging and how the use of oxygen scavenger packets can greatly help tackle these risks and issues effectively.
Food spoilage due to Oxygen exposure
When food items are stored over a long period of time, excess or changing levels of oxygen can lead to the growth of mold, and mildew, which in turn can lead to spoilage or wastage of the food, making it unfit for consumption. That is why the use of Oxysorb packets during packaging and shipping can avoid these issues, effectively extend the shelf life of your stored food, and safeguard them from this excess oxygen exposure. Oxygen absorbers are small sachets that absorb nearly all the oxygen in a sealed package, reducing it to almost zero. This creates a nitrogen-rich environment that helps keep food fresh for much longer.
Growth of mold and mildew during long storage
Food items are highly susceptible to the growth of mold and mildew as the packaging and storage may go through varying climate conditions or storage places. This can easily lead to the change in levels of moisture and humidity and in turn the growth of mold and mildew on the products, making it unfit for consumption and wastage/spoilage. Mold not only affects the taste and quality of food but can also pose health risks, so we need to be careful during the storage of food products. Oxygen absorbers effectively remove oxygen from the packaging, and thus help prevent mold growth.
Nutrient loss in food items during packaging
Excess or long time exposure to high oxygen levels during storage and transportation can cause the nutrients in food to degrade over time, especially the important vitamins and minerals that are essential. So, it is important to mainly safeguard this loss and maintain proper levels and conditions to protect the food items. Oxygen absorbers work in this packaging by limiting exposure to oxygen and preserving these nutrients effectively in food.
Infestation of insects and other microorganisms
Since food items can spoil or get rancid if not kept in their ideal conditions, they very soon start to develop an infestation of insects and the growth of microorganisms in the food. This can lead to spoilage of the food as well as change the texture, flavor, quality, and smell of the food. Once the food gets infested or spoilt it is unfit for consumption and should be discarded or thrown away leading to a lot of wastage and dumping in landfills, making increase in losses for companies.
Rancidity in fats in the food items
The packaged food items have various types of fats and oils that can spoil in the presence of excess or varying levels of moisture and oxygen. This leads to rancidity and spoilage of the entire food item as the rancidity leads to a change in the texture and smell of the food making it unfit for eating and needs to be thrown away. When you use Oxysorb packets during the storage of food items containing fats, oils, and ghee, they help maintain the optimal and necessary levels of oxygen thus helping maintain their efficiency as well as quality, and protect from moisture.
Deterioration in the flavor of food over time
If there is excess oxygen level in the shipping or cargo containers and packaging, the texture and flavour of these food items are the first to see the changes leading to soggy food, rapid decrease in the flavour of the item, and changes in the taste due to the deterioration. Thus, oxygen absorbers help remove the excess oxygen and moisture from the surrounding air and help fight deterioration of the food flavour, taste, and texture to keep them in their best quality throughout their shelf life.
To protect your food storage from these 6 major risks and keep food items fresh, edible, and in their best quality throughout the storage, transportation, packaging, and shipping, you should use premium quality Oxygen absorbers and Oxygen scavengers from Sorbchem India which is the largest manufacturer and supplier of Oxysorb.
