Oxygen Absorbing Packets: What Are They and What Do They Do?

If you are anything like me, and I think you are, you love snacks. Specifically, you love beef jerky and will get it in any kind you can get your hands on. So when you’re diving through that package of beef jerky and you find that white package at or near the bottom, at first you don’t think “Hey I want to eat this”, despite the three thousand warning labels for you not to ingest it. Your first question is, “What is this?”

What you have found there isn’t the prize in a Cracker-Jack Box, it’s an oxygen absorbing packet.