Rice is a long-lasting food that can stay in your pantry for many months. As long as it is stored well, however: if the package is open and the product is in a place that is too humid or hot, it can spoil, developing some insect pests. How can you avoid this unpleasant phenomenon? Here are all the most effective methods for storing rice at its best.

Rice is one of the most popular, loved and used foods in the world, not only for its goodness and its great versatility in the kitchen, but also because it is a food with a long shelf life, which can last for many months in your pantry. To ensure that rice remains intact for the entire period in which you do not use it, however, you must learn to store it in adequate conditions that allow the quality and organoleptic characteristics of the product to be kept intact.

Once the package is opened, rice becomes particularly sensitive to the temperature and humidity of the environment in which it is stored, which is why it requires a series of precautions that reduce exposure to humidity and pests. Here are the most effective ones for preserving rice to perfection.

What Happens if You Store Rice Poorly
Surely it has happened to you more than once to find the pantry where you keep open packets of rice, but also those of pasta or flour, infested by insects usually known as “food moths”, or even worse to find insects inside the packages known as wheat weevils. This is precisely the greatest risk you run when you do not store rice and the other products mentioned properly, because if not perfectly isolated it is very likely that unwanted insects will contaminate it.