Ingredients · Spices and dried aromatics

Black pepper (ground)

How long it keeps

About 24 months unopened

Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 238 Spice/spices, ground, 2–3 Years · https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fsis-foodkeeper-data

What ends it. It stops tasting of much long before it becomes unsafe to eat. How to make it last longer

Storage

Cool, dark, airtight. Somehow absent from the first sixty ingredients.

Worth reading

The pack

Typical UK size
50 g
Weight packed
75 g
Volume
100 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
not measured
Protein
10.4 g
Fibre
25.3 g
Vitamin C
0 mg
Vitamin A
55 µg
Omega-3
not measured
Sodium
20 mg

Source: CoFID 2021: 13-880 Pepper, black

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