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The mouth serves nine of the ten

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Flour, sugar and rice are scooped Pasta is awkward in a different way Which our dimension fields answer Dried fruit is sticky Nuts need the opposite of clear Which is the one real trade on this shelf Cereal and dry bean are the easy leaves Bulk grain is the largest Pet treat home is the odd leaf So the same leaf is served at two scales Sugar home is the one narrow-neck candidate Nine of ten want the wide mouth References

A canister you reach into. Which is a different article from a jar you pour from.

Flour, sugar and rice are scooped

Which needs a mouth a hand and a cup can get into, and 14 of the 29 containers here are on a finish of 110 mm or wider.

Pasta is awkward in a different way

Long pasta does not bend, so the container has to be tall enough or the mouth wide enough to take it on the diagonal.

Which our dimension fields answer

Height and diameter are published on most containers in the catalog, so the geometry is checkable before ordering.

Dried fruit is sticky

And sticks to a narrow neck on the way out. A wide mouth is not a convenience for that leaf, it is the only thing that works.

Nuts need the opposite of clear

A nut is a fat and oxidizes in light. 14 of the 29 containers are white and opaque, against 9 clear.

Which is the one real trade on this shelf

Seeing what is in a pantry jar against protecting what is in it. 9 clear and 2 glass, versus 14 white and 5 natural.

Cereal and dry bean are the easy leaves

Robust, dry, not light sensitive and not sticky. Almost anything on this shelf serves them.

Bulk grain is the largest

And the shelf goes to 7,571 mL, which is two gallons. For a household buying grain in quantity that is the top end.

Pet treat home is the odd leaf

It appears in this group and also in the pet and veterinary group, which has its own shelf with containers up to 18,927 mL.

So the same leaf is served at two scales

A household tub here and a bulk pail there, which is the index doing something sensible for once.

Sugar home is the one narrow-neck candidate

Sugar pours, so a 48-400 or 53-400 container works. There are 2 of each on this shelf.

Nine of ten want the wide mouth

Which is why this is the widest-mouth shelf in the library and why that is the right shape for it.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. Of the 29 containers in this group, 9 are on a 110-400 finish and 5 on 120TT, so 14 are on a finish of 110 mm or wider, and a further 8 have no neck finish recorded because they are tubs and pails that close with a lid across their full diameter. The home coffee, tea and spice shelf next door has 70-400 as its commonest finish, on 54 of 205 containers.

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. 178 rows: 29 containers and 149 closures, which is one of the smallest container counts in this library and a closure ratio of better than five to one. 950 to 7,571 mL with a median of 2,514, and nothing under a quart. 20 HDPE, 7 PET and 2 glass. 12 jars, 9 bottles, 8 tubs and pails. 5 PE wide mouth containers, 4 HDPE round tubs with handle, 4 plastic square grip containers, 3 plastic round pails, 3 HDPE single wall canisters, 2 PET wide mouth containers. 14 white, 9 clear, 5 natural, 1 black. Necks: 9 at 110-400, 8 unrecorded, 5 at 120TT, 2 each at 48-400 and 53-400, and singles at 110-405, 89-400 and 120-400. Closures: 110 continuous thread polypropylene lids, 16 metal or aluminum CT caps, 10 dome lids, 5 round tub lids, 3 plastic round pail lids, 3 sealing discs, 1 metal lug or twist cap, 1 metal overshell lid. Buyability, a snapshot: 20 of 29 available, 9 not; 9 quote only; 4 full case only, with case packs from 16 to 600 and a median of 80.

Written from 21 CFR 101.7 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. That section reaches a food in package form, meaning a package for sale, so almost none of it reaches somebody filling a pantry canister; it is quoted because the four permitted terms and the 231 cubic inch gallon are worth knowing and because it shows what changes when a jar is sold rather than filled. The mass against volume gap is set out in the specialty supplements property. Nothing here addresses net quantity formatting, type size, placement, metric declarations, or state weights and measures law.