Super Pails and how they are packed

Our Super Pails represent one of the best solutions for long term food storage. A Super Pail is a 6 gallon hard sided plastic bucket with an airtight Mylar bag sealed inside.

When packing Super Pails, the Mylar bag is opened up and placed inside the bucket, then the bucket is filled to the top with your food. An oxygen absorber packet is placed on top (to be discard after opening). Then all possible air is squeezed out and the top of the bag is heat sealed shut.

Air is made up of:

Nitrogen: 78% (Completely inert gas)

Oxygen: 21%

Argon: almost 1% (Completely inert gas)

With the bag sealed, the oxygen absorber absorbs the oxygen. As there is nothing to displace the removed oxygen with, the bag is put under a partial vacuum. All that remains in the bag is nitrogen and traces of a few other inert gasses. Because of the air proof nature of the mylar bag, your product will remain 99.5% oxygen free.