Ingredients · Baking and dry goods

Desiccated coconut

How long it keeps

About 12 months unopened

Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 257 Coconut, shredded, 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, airtight. Toasted dry in a pan it becomes a different and much better ingredient.

The pack

Typical UK size
200 g
Weight packed
208 g
Volume
450 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
604 kcal
Protein
5.6 g
Fibre
not measured
Vitamin C
0 mg
Vitamin A
0 µg
Omega-3
not measured
Sodium
28 mg

Source: CoFID 2021: 14-873 Coconut, desiccated

2 recipes using desiccated coconut