Ingredients · Tinned and jarred vegetables
Carrots (tinned)
How long it keeps
About 24 months unopened
Once opened, about 2 days, refrigerated.
Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 372 Canned goods, low acid (such as meat, poultry, fish, gravy, stew, soups, beans, carrots, corn, pasta, peas, potatoes, spinach), 2–5 Years · https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fsis-foodkeeper-data
What ends it. The food and the tin slowly react. That changes taste and texture rather than making it unsafe. How to make it last longer
Storage
Cool, dark. Soft, sweet and deliberately in the corpus for vitamin A (§7).
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 300 g
- Weight packed
- 335 g
- Volume
- 350 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
- 20 kcal
- Protein
- 0.5 g
- Fibre
- 2.6 g
- Vitamin C
- 1 mg
- Vitamin A
- 345 µg
- Omega-3
- not measured
- Sodium
- 0 mg
Source: CoFID 2021, 13-565 Carrots, young, canned in water, re-heated, drained
12 recipes using carrots (tinned)
- Barley and bean broth
- Chicken and noodle broth
- Coconut vegetable curry
- Coconut, lentil and carrot curry
- Curried carrot and lentil mash
- Dried mushroom and bulgur soup
- Green lentils with mustard dressing
- Pasta e fagioli
- Sauerkraut and carrot slaw
- Spiced carrot and chickpea soup
- Split pea and frankfurter soup
- White bean and tomato soup