Preservation of food

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE: In storing a food using an alcoholic gas, to enable the long-term storage of the food, by adding an easily oxidizable substance to a container so that oxygen in the container filled with the alcoholic gas is reduced or removed. CONSTITUTION: An adsorbent, e.g., starch, active carbon, nonwoven fabric, etc. on which ethanol is adsorbed, an easily oxidizable substance, e.g., unsaturated fatty acid, vegetable fats and oils, various kinds of antioxidants, and, preferably in oxidation accelerator, e.g., ferric chloride, iron citrate, etc. are sealed up in a hermitically sealed container storing a food in such a way that they are not brought into contact with the food. COPYRIGHT: (C)1981,JPO&Japio

Inventors

• 👤 Ryutaro Fukazawa
• 👤 Takao Ito

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