Harrison's Stay Fresh Food Preserver for Bird Food

A bag of Harrison's is at its best the day you open it. After that, oxygen gets to work on the oils in the grains and seeds, and by the time you can smell the difference your bird has been noticing it for a fortnight.

Stay Fresh is a simple fix: a short spray of food-safe nitrogen into the bag, which displaces the oxygen before you reseal it. No oxygen, no oxidation — so no rancidity, no browning, no flat, stale flavour that makes a bird go off its food.

How to use it

1. Open the bag and take out what you need.
2. Spray Stay Fresh into the bag after every single opening — this is the part people get wrong.
3. Press the air out, reseal, and store cool and dark.

How much extra life you get depends entirely on that discipline, and on keeping the food in its original Harrison's bag.

Not just bird food

Chop fruit and vegetables, put them in a container, give them a spray and seal. Chop prep for the week stops going brown at the edges by Wednesday. It works in the fridge and the freezer.

Why nitrogen

Nitrogen is about 78% of the air you are breathing now. It is inert, tasteless and does not react with food — which is exactly why the food industry uses it to pack everything from crisps to coffee. It is not a preservative added to the food; it simply takes the oxygen's place above it.

Questions we get asked

Is it safe around birds?
It is food-safe nitrogen with nothing added. As with any aerosol, spray it into the bag rather than into the room, and do it away from the cage.

How many bags will one bottle do?
Dozens — it is a short burst each time, not a soaking.

Do I still need to refrigerate the food?
For a 5 lb bag you are working through slowly, cool storage still helps. Stay Fresh and the fridge together are better than either alone.

Does it work on other brands of pellets?
Yes. Oxidation is oxidation.

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