Does commercial survival food have a really longer shelf life?
I am reading the LDS Survival Manual (as well as others). They have a list of recommended storage times for various foods. All foods are good to eat up any where from 6 months to 2 years after packaging. However, on commercial survival storage foods website such as http://beprepared.com/ they say that their foods are good for 20 years or so. Why is there such a big difference? Are their foods really good for that long? Has anyone tested the modern day suppliers for 20 years? Is home packaged food really only good for 6 months to a couple years?