Couscous
How long it keeps
About 24 months unopened
Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 335 Pasta, dry, without eggs, 2 Years · https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fsis-foodkeeper-data
What ends it. It takes up water from the air, which is what makes it cake, soften or grow mould. How to make it last longer
Storage
Cool, dark, airtight. Rehydrates off the heat in five minutes, which makes single portions genuinely easy.
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 500 g
- Weight packed
- 508 g
- Volume
- 715 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
- 364 kcal
- Protein
- 12 g
- Fibre
- 3.7 g
- Vitamin C
- 0 mg
- Vitamin A
- 0 µg
- Omega-3
- 0.05 g
- Sodium
- 4 mg
Source: CoFID 2021: 11-901 Couscous, plain, raw