What Are Shelf Stable Ready Meals?
Shelf Stable Fruit List
- Apricots
- Peaches
- Mandarin Oranges
- Mangos
- Pears
- Pineapple
- Cherries
- Mixed or Medley
- Grapefruit
- Apple and other fruit sauces
What are some shelf stable foods?
- Pasta
- Cereal
- Cookies
- Dried Beans
- Shelf Stable Milk (powdered milk)
- Shelf Stable Almond Milk
- Canned Beans
- Canned Veggies
- Carrots canned
- Apples jarred
- Mix all the ingredients together with half a cup of the water and knead until you have a nice soft dough.
- You may need to add extra water to get a nice dough.
- Let it rise on the counter for 15 minutes.
- Add cooking oil or shortening to a skillet and heat it up until it sizzles when you flick a drop of water on it.
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- Apples.
- Citrus fruits, such as oranges and grapefruits.
- Avocados.
- Tomatoes.
- Potatoes, sweet potatoes, and yams.
- Cucumbers and summer squash.
- Winter squash.
- Hard, packaged sausages, such as sopressata and pepperoni.
What is shelf stable food?
Foods that can be safely stored at room temperature, or “on the shelf,” are called “shelf stable.”. These non-perishable products include jerky, country hams, canned and bottled foods, rice, pasta, flour, sugar, spices, oils, and foods processed in aseptic or retort packages and other products that do not require refrigeration until after opening.
Canning is a way to store food for long periods of time. It is a method of preserving where food is placed in airtight, vacuum-sealed containers and heat processed at 250 °F (121 °C). This destroys microorganisms and inactivates enzymes.
Do not taste it! If the product does look and/or smell normal, thoroughly cook the contents right away by boiling for 10 to 20 minutes.
In the plant, the pouch is filled with food, sealed, and then retorted at temperatures of 240 to 250 °F to commercially sterilize the contents. Because a pouch is flat, it takes much less time than a metal can does to heat the contents to the point of commercial sterilization.
Freeze-drying is a commercial process that can be used to preserve such food as dried soup mixes, instant coffee, fruits, and vegetables. To freeze dry, frozen food is placed in a special vacuum cabinet. There, ice changes from a solid state directly to a vapor state without first becoming a liquid.
Drying is the world’s oldest and most common method of food preservation. Drying technology is both simple and readily available to most of the world’s culture. Examples of dried foods are jerky, powdered milk, dried beans and peas, potatoes in a box, dried fruits and vegetables, pasta, and rice.
Over several years, this can cause taste and texture changes, and eventually lower the nutritional value of the food. High temperatures (over 100 °F) are harmful to canned goods too. The risk of spoilage jumps sharply as storage temperatures rise.