Ingredients · Fresh vegetables
Chinese leaf (napa cabbage, fresh)
How long it keeps
About 1 week in the fridge
Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 278 Cabbage, 1–2 Weeks (FoodKeeper lists no Chinese cabbage; nearest entry), refrigerated from date of purchase · https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fsis-foodkeeper-data
What ends it. It is fresh produce. It starts to wilt, soften and rot from the day it was picked, and the fridge only slows that down. How to make it last longer
Storage
In the fridge, whole. Sold as Chinese leaf in UK supermarkets. Softer and sweeter than white cabbage, and the classic cabbage for kimchi.
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 700 g
- Weight packed
- 700 g
- Volume
- 1600 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
- 12 kcal
- Protein
- 1 g
- Fibre
- not measured
- Vitamin C
- 21 mg
- Vitamin A
- 0 µg
- Omega-3
- not measured
- Sodium
- 7 mg
Source: CoFID 2021, 13-187 Cabbage, Chinese, raw