The types of food that has the longest shelf life is canned foods as well as white rice, honey, dried beans, canned meat, vacuum packed meats, chocolate, dark chocolate, peanut butter and Bouillon cubes or energy bars.
Three foods that you can survive on the longest are beans, potatoes and rice.
The single food that you can survive on the longest is sweet potatoes and potatoes.
However to survive longer you need more food options to get the proper nutrients or you could get really sick and die of a nutritional deficiency.
You can live off of potatoes for a short while but not forever.
If you only ate potatoes then you would get sick from a nutrition deficiency as potatoes cannot provide you with all the nutrients your body requires to thrive.
You can live on rice and beans but not forever.
While beans and rice can help you live when you have no other food you need other foods in order to stay healthy and thrive.
And although beans and rice are a healthy food choice, especially if you keep the added sodium and fat content low, eating only beans and rice could lead to other nutritional deficiencies.
The best survival foods are beef jerky, oatmeal, cured meats, summer sausage, canned meats, canned soups, beans and potato flakes.
Foods that you should stockpile in an emergency are protein bars, beef jerky cured meats, summer sausage, canned vegetables, canned soups, canned pork, canned meats, canned or boxed milk, powdered milk, jugs of water, bottle water.
You can also stockpile peanut butter, dried fruit and dried cereal as well as oatmeal and even ramen noodles which are easy to prepare.
The following things such as can corrosion, swelling, bulging and food spoilage can result from badly stored canned food.
Food reacts chemically with the metal container, especially high-acid food like canned tomatoes and fruit juices.