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Show Msngr-Entrprl- , Thursday, Sptmbar Stored food should be rotated, eaten before too long Nothing lasts forever including stored food. No matter how dry, air tight or well hidden in the darkest recesses of your storage area it is, time marches on. Eventually all stored food will lose significant nutritional value, flavor, texture, color or most likely some combination of all of these. Mendenhall says the reason you should "eat what you store is that none of the food stays in storage too long. You can start a system of rotation in which the newest food goes to the back of the shelves and the oldest food gets used as part of your daily meals. Although our ancestors didnt have any scientific data to prove it, the old root cellar was indeed the best place to store food. According to Dr. Von T. Mendenhall, USU Extension food science specialist, no preservation method can completely stop the chemical changes that take place in food over time. Even putting food in air tight containers cannot halt the enzyme changes in stored foods. So, beware of salesmen who try to sell you a prepackaged food storage plan that never needs to be replaced. He says the best course of action for putting together a food storage program is to "store wh3t your family eats and have you family eat what you store." You should "store the foods you eat" because this is the only way you can ensure that your family will want to cat the food in an emergency. Many families would find their stored foods hard to stomach if they actually had to eat them. The food science specialist says the most critical factors determining the shelf life of stored food are temperature and exposure to light. Consequently, storage areas should be cold and dark. He says food stored in a dark area at a constant temperature of 50 degrees can maintain most of its quality and nutrients for up to three years. The same food stored at 70 months; at 90 degrees will last degrees only about nine months. Mendenhall says specific nutrients diminsh at different rates, but you can be sure that as your stored food grows older, it is going to be less desirable to eat and it is going to contain fewer nutrients. 18-2- 4 See vvhatyouve been missing. lore's the face that goes with the voice. CNN brings you Larry King Uve, Monday-F- n Jay. Time in to America's favorite radio personality and watch him take charge on television's most controversial call-i- n show. I Community TV of Utah, Inc. or 283-466- 8 . Gunnison, Utah Phone ADMISSIONS Adult Children On 3.00 Showing Only at 5:00 P. M. Beginning 1.50 Sept. 20,21,22,23 The Bride Towns Theatre Sunday thru Thurs., RIDAT A 1 99 Ephraim at 8:00 p.m. showing SAW WAT ONI SHOWINO 5.00 P. M Sept. 18, 19, 20, 21 Wed.-Sat- ., 0 Color TV Uf diagonal with Remote Control Brilliant color performance featuring the chairside convenience ol 1 remote control and multi band cable tuning Includes automatic color control, fleshtone correction circuit and Super AccuFilter black main picture tube SetectaVlelon VCR with Ptclur Search g video recorder ha TN the feature you need lor great horn entertainment, plus convenient multifunction remote Includes Picture Search and Slop Action (SLP mode), programmer and up to electronic tuner 399 MoucxntMcuAX m Ml AIMN1UH MAD MAX WOMD THMCXSDOtB Video Cassette Ki i ULTRA QTOfOO f " Basin "V Drive-I- n One showing Mt. Pleasant at Now Only j) -- p.wn w Nil rl dworrd 'anti COCOON for I, I, rvwythino Now Only fflk Dusk Thurs. Sun., Sept. 19, 20, 21, 22 you v Television Recorders (VHS) The Ultimate in Theatre Sound Systems!! 9" Color 1 70 JJome Supnitj Quality West Union Street . and Value Manti. Utah Phone I 835-236- 1 19, 1985 Pag R5 |