You may want to check on a few items in your pantry.

Light, humidity, oxygen-exposure, and temperature are all major contributors to the shelf-life of most items.

Keep reading for a list of six food items you should never store in the pantry.

stocked kitchen pantry with food - jars and containers of cereals, jam, coffee, sugar, flour, oil, vinegar, rice

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In other words, organic peanut butter isnt suited for the pantry.

you could also keep flour in the freezer toextend its shelf-life.

Avocados

Waiting foravocados to ripencan be a finicky process.