Ingredients · Baking and dry goods

Baking powder

How long it keeps

About 6 months unopened

Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 212 Baking powder, 6–18 Months · https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fsis-foodkeeper-data

What ends it. It takes up water from the air, which is what makes it cake, soften or grow mould. How to make it last longer

Storage

Cool, dry, airtight. Loses power over about a year, which is the one thing in this cupboard that genuinely expires in a way you will notice.

The pack

Typical UK size
170 g
Weight packed
195 g
Volume
220 ml

Computed from net weight and standard pack geometry, not weighed. Manufacturers publish net weight and nobody publishes packed weight or displaced volume, so this is an estimate and is labelled as one.

Per 100 g

Deliberately narrow. These are the five things a long-life diet actually gets wrong, plus energy and protein. It is not a general nutrition model and is not meant to be.

Energy
163 kcal
Protein
5.2 g
Fibre
0 g
Vitamin C
0 mg
Vitamin A
0 µg
Omega-3
not measured
Sodium
11800 mg

Source: CoFID 2021: 17-355 Baking powder

2 recipes using baking powder