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Long Term Shelf Life For Food Chart
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Long Term Food Shelf Life Chart
(The years listed for shelf life assumes ideal storage conditions, i.e. low moisture, low light, cool temeratures, and low oxgen content.)
| Food |
“Life Sustaining” Shelf-Life Estimates (In Years) |
| Apple slices | 30 |
| Alfalfa Seeds | 8 |
| Bakers Flour | 15 |
| Barley | 10 |
| Black Turtle Beans | 15 – 20 |
| Blackeye Peas | 15 -20 |
| Buckwheat | 15 |
| Butter/margarine Powder | 15 |
| Cocoa Powder | 15 |
| Cornmeal | 5 |
| Cracked wheat | 25 |
| Durham Wheat | 8 – 12 |
| Flax | 8 – 12 |
| Flour (white) | 10-20 |
| Flour (whole wheat) | 10-20 |
| Garbanzo Beans | 15 – 20 |
| Garden Seeds | 4 |
| Gluten | 5 |
| Granola | 5 |
| Honey, Salt and Sugar | Indefinitely |
| Hulled Oats | 30 |
| Kidney Beans | 20 |
| Lentils | 20 |
| Lima Beans | 20 |
| Millet | 8 – 12 |
| Morning Moo | 10 |
| Mung Beans | 8 – 10 |
| Onions | 8 – 12 |
| Pasta | 30 |
| Pearled Oats | 10 |
| Pink Beans | 20 – 30 |
| Pinto Beans | 30+ |
| Potatoes (flakes, slices, diced) | 30 |
| Powdered Eggs | 15 |
| Powdered Milk | 20 |
| Quinoa | 8 |
| Rice (brown) | 6 months |
| Rice (white) | 25+ |
| Rolled Oats | 30 |
| Rye | 8 |
| Small Red Beans | 8 – 10 |
| Soy Beans | 8 – 10 |
| Special bakery wheat | 25 |
| Spelt | 12 |
| Sprouting Seeds | 4-5 |
| Triticale | 8 – 12 |
| TVP | 15 – 20 |
| Unbleached Flour | 5 |
| Vegetables (most) | 20-30 |
| Wheat (hard white) | 30 |
| Wheat (hard red) | 30+ |
| Wheat flakes | 5 |
| Whey Powder | 15 |
| Yeast |
2 |
