Mylar Bags For Rice Storage
Heavy mylar bags for long-term rice storage.
Rice keeps for decades in the right bag: heavy foil mylar plus an oxygen absorber blocks the oxygen and moisture that spoil it. We supply gusseted bags built to seal.
- Heavy foil mylar
- Blocks oxygen and moisture
- Oxygen-absorber ready
- Quart to 5-gallon
Pair with correctly-sized absorbers.
“Low minimums were the whole reason we tried them. 250 pouches to test a flavor, then 5,000 when it took off — same bag, same print, no drama.”
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Rice measured in decades
White rice is one of the few foods that genuinely keeps for 20 to 30 years, but only if three things are excluded: oxygen, moisture and light. A heavy mylar bag with an oxygen absorber inside excludes all three. The foil-core laminate blocks light and gas migration; the absorber scavenges the oxygen sealed in with the rice; the heat seal locks the system. Done right, the bag outperforms buckets and jars on shelf life, space and cost, which is why long-term food storage standardized on it.
Brown rice is the exception worth knowing: its oils go rancid regardless of packaging, so it stores for a couple of years, not decades.
The spec that matters
Thickness first: 5 mil is the floor for grain storage, 7 mil resists punctures from rice's own hard grains in stacked storage. True foil-core construction, not metallised look-alike film, does the barrier work. Gusseted bases stand for filling; one-gallon and five-gallon formats match the bucket-liner workflow most bulk storers use. Absorber sizing follows bag volume, roughly 300 to 500 cc per gallon of packed rice, and our absorber kits pair the two correctly out of the box.
Sealing well is half the result
A clamshell hair straightener or a household iron across a board edge makes a sound seal; leave headroom, press out excess air, seal, then label with contents and date, the step everyone regrets skipping five years later. Within a day the absorber pulls the bag tight and brick-like, which is your visual confirmation the seal held. The broader long-term pantry spec lives under food storage mylar bags.
Can I reuse the bags?
If cut open below the seal, yes, reseal with a new absorber. Thicker 7 mil bags survive more cycles.
