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Weevils in flour come from insect eggs that hatch. The eggs are microscopic. Flour is now treated to kill most of the eggs. Except organic flour- or flour you make by grinding your own grain. Me- I keep flour in the freezer.
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I have read quite about about food preservation. I have not seen anything about putting an 02 absorber in with rice and, or beans with either salt or bullion in a food saver vacum bag. Do a couple lbs each. To me, seems like it would be good for years if stored in cool dry place.
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CO2 can help keep the eggs from hatching. FWIW, fresh fruit, like apples and pears, require oxygen in order to ripen. Commercial apple growers use "controlled atmosphere storage"- oxygen has been replaced with CO2 in the air in the storage rooms. Apples go to sleep. When you air out the storage rooms, they go back to ripening.
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CO2 can help keep the eggs from hatching. FWIW, fresh fruit, like apples and pears, require oxygen in order to ripen. Commercial apple growers use "controlled atmosphere storage"- oxygen has been replaced with CO2 in the air in the storage rooms. Apples go to sleep. When you air out the storage rooms, they go back to ripening.
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