Chorizo (cured, whole)
How long it keeps
About 12 months unopened
Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 632 Chorizo, smoked and processed, cooked, 1 Years · https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fsis-foodkeeper-data
What ends it. The fat in it turns rancid, and that happens long before anything else goes wrong. How to make it last longer
Storage
Cool, dark. Vacuum-packed and shelf-stable until cut. Renders a deep red paprika fat that is the flavour base of anything it goes into.
Worth reading
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 200 g
- Weight packed
- 210 g
- Volume
- 230 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
- 395 kcal
- Protein
- 24 g
- Fibre
- 1 g
- Vitamin C
- not measured
- Vitamin A
- not measured
- Omega-3
- not measured
- Sodium
- 1400 mg
Source: CoFID 2021: 19-516 Chorizo