Food storage is both a traditional domestic skill and is important industrially. Food is stored by almost every human society and by many animals. Storing of food has several main purposes:preparation for periods of scarcity or faminetaking advantage of short term surplus of food as at harvest timeenabling a better balanced diet throughout the yearpreparing for special events and celebrationsplanning for catastrophe or emergencyprotection against predators or others

A healthy and varied kid lunch box starts with having the essentials on hand. This includes a quality unbreakable thermos (for keeping foods either hot or cold), a thermal lunch bag (to preserve freshness), a freezer pack (to maintain a cool temperature), some plastic cutlery, a reusable drink box and an assortment of storage containers with...

By treating the produce for a week with low levels of oxygen at 20ºC, they were able to prevent spoiling. 90% of the treated apples were edible after eight months of cold storage. This can significantly lower prices for organics, since prices account for short-term shelf life, too.