This year I have been really working on the food preps with the focus being on stocking up on what we eat every day. With that said I would like to stock up and have some long term light weight stuff...Mountainhouse or equivelant. My question is the individual packets/meals are freeze dried but the cans are often dehydrated. What is the shelf life difference assuming similar storage, unopened etc.
Freeze dried has a longer shelf life but most agree that the difference in shelf life between dehydrated and freeze dried is not enough to worry about. Freeze dried is more expensive, too.
ALL Mountain House products in pouches and cans are freeze dried. Your point of the cans being dehydrated is incorrect. There are other brands of food where the cans may contain dehydrated product - - but not Mountain House.
Shelf Life difference IS based on the packaging.
Pouches are 7 years from manufacture date, and #10 cans are 25+ years.
Here is the Mountain House website link for their Q&A's. Eight questions from the top - - click on it and it will answer your question straight from them:
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