Patent ID: 7798714

Claim:
A plastic storage bag for storing food items comprising: a first sidewall of flexible thermoplastic material; a second sidewall of flexible thermoplastic material overlaying and joined to the first sidewall along a peripheral edge to provide an internal volume between opposing first and second inner surfaces of the respective first and second sidewalls, the first inner surface of the first sidewall having an attached textured portion wherein the textured portion extends from the first side edge to the second side edge and is spaced-apart from the bottom edge and is a wholly flexible permeable clearance member of porous substrate, and the internal volume accessible through an opening disposed through the peripheral edge; first and second interlocking closure strips attached respectively to the first and second sidewalls for releasably closing the opening; and a wholly flexible one-way valve element attached over a hole in the first sidewall proximate an intersection of the peripheral edge and the opening, the valve element communicating with the internal volume; wherein the valve element includes flexible thermoplastic film and the valve element is a slit valve.