Chicken (tinned, in water)
How long it keeps
About 60 months unopened
Once opened, about 2 days, refrigerated.
Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 142 Canned chicken, 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. Mild, already cooked and shreds rather than slices, which makes it the most flexible tinned meat here and the least interesting on its own. It wants acid and spice more than any other tin in the cupboard.
Worth reading
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 200 g
- Weight packed
- 230 g
- Volume
- 210 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
- 160 kcal
- Protein
- 28.4 g
- Fibre
- 0 g
- Vitamin C
- 0 mg
- Vitamin A
- 0 µg
- Omega-3
- not measured
- Sodium
- 60 mg
Source: CoFID 2021, 18-307 Chicken, breast, casseroled, meat only