Corned beef (tinned)
How long it keeps
About 60 months unopened
Once opened, about 2 days, refrigerated.
Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 111 Meat products, canned, 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. Chills firm enough to slice, crumbles warm. The backbone of a hash.
Worth reading
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 340 g
- Weight packed
- 378 g
- Volume
- 390 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
- 205 kcal
- Protein
- 25.9 g
- Fibre
- 0 g
- Vitamin C
- 0 mg
- Vitamin A
- 0 µg
- Omega-3
- 0.03 g
- Sodium
- 860 mg
Source: CoFID 2021: 19-128 Corned beef, canned