Chickpeas (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. Keep the aquafaba if you have a use for it; otherwise drain and rinse to cut sodium.
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 400 g
- Weight packed
- 448 g
- Volume
- 470 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
- 129 kcal
- Protein
- 8.4 g
- Fibre
- 7.1 g
- Vitamin C
- 0 mg
- Vitamin A
- 4 µg
- Omega-3
- not measured
- Sodium
- 1 mg
Source: CoFID 2021: 13-670 Beans, chick peas, canned, re-heated, drained
14 recipes using chickpeas (tinned)
- Alfalfa sprout and chickpea wraps
- Apricot and chickpea tagine
- Chickpea and tahini mash
- Chickpea and tomato curry
- Chorizo and chickpea stew
- Coconut vegetable curry
- Coronation chickpeas
- Harissa and chickpea soup
- Harissa chickpea wraps
- Harissa chickpeas with couscous
- Pasta with chickpeas
- Quinoa with chickpeas and lemon
- Smoky chickpea and tomato stew
- Spiced carrot and chickpea soup