Keep your food (and wine) fresh for way longer with these 10 products

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It’s no secret that fresh food is typically much better for you, and that part of the reason it's so healthy is the lack of preservatives.

The preservatives that are added to foods may not be great for your body, but they do help keep food on the shelves longer. Foods with preservatives offer the convenience of infrequent trips to the store and they cost less. 

Healthy foods without preservatives can be more expensive, and with their limited shelf life, they can seem like a less valuable buy (even though they're much healthier). One easy way to cut down on how much food and money you waste when perishable foods spoil is by investing in pretty inexpensive products that can prolong the freshness and flavor of food for much longer than you might expect.

Spoiled food is something that we’ve been dealing with as long as humans have been able to store it, so you might as well take advantage of years and years of research into how and why food spoils, and pick up some food saving products. Food savers don't just protect the other half of the avocado or that box of spring mix lettuce you bought for yourself. There are helpful innovations that can help you cut corners and preserve freshness and flavor in things like coffee and wine, too, so you can buy food without weighing health against cost, and also give yourself the freedom to enjoy your favorite luxuries whenever you like.

Below you’ll find 10 ways to keep your food and drink fresh longer: 

Rubbermaid FreshWorks Produce Saver Food Storage Container

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These Rubbermaid FreshWorks containers keep produce fresh for up to 80% longer than store packaging. 

FreshVent technology regulates the flow of oxygen and carbon dioxide for the ideal produce environment and the CrispTray helps keep moisture out to keep produce from spoiling or becoming soggy.

The filter also lasts a lifetime, so you won't need to replace it. With more than 680 reviews and nearly 4.5 stars, it's a best-seller for a reason.

Rubbermaid FreshWorks Produce Saver Food Storage Container, starting at $7.43

Bluapple One-Year Combo Pack

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Bluapple was scientifically engineered to slow the spoilage of fruits and vegetables, and it’s actually a pretty simple mechanism.

Your produce ripens because your veggies and fruits naturally give off ethylene gas to coordinate uniform ripening. So once you put them in a confined space, like a drawer in your refrigerator, the trapped ethylene gas only continues to speed up the ripening process. What Bluapple does is absorb that ethylene gas and slow the process down. It’ll be effective for about three months in a typical home refrigerator or storage container. It won’t ever "wear out" — instead, it’ll just continue to absorb the ethylene until it has reached its capacity.

Bluapple One-Year Combo Pack, $13.40

Coravin Model Eight Wine System

Coravin

Once you pull the cork from your bottle of wine, the wine itself starts to change taste due to oxidization. The Coravin is the first tool in the world to let you pour a glass of wine without taking the cork out and exposing your wine to the air. It inserts a thin, hollow needle to pressurize the bottle with argon (an inert gas that's in the air we breathe). Once pressurized, the wine flows through that needle into your waiting glass. After the wine is poured and the needle removed, the cork naturally reseals itself.

Now you can enjoy a glass from a bottle without having to commit to finishing the rest in one sitting. It'll make your wine last longer and save you money.

Coravin Model Eight Wine System, $299

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