Ingredients · Tinned fruit and puddings

Custard (tinned)

How long it keeps

About 24 months unopened

Once opened, about 2 days, refrigerated.

Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 372 Canned goods, low acid (such as meat, poultry, fish, gravy, stew, soups, beans, carrots, corn, pasta, peas, potatoes, spinach), 2–5 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. The thing that turns tinned fruit into a dessert.

The pack

Typical UK size
400 g
Weight packed
448 g
Volume
470 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
95 kcal
Protein
4 g
Fibre
0 g
Vitamin C
1 mg
Vitamin A
23 µg
Omega-3
not measured
Sodium
67 mg

Source: CoFID 2021: 12-519 Custard, made up with semi-skimmed milk

2 recipes using custard (tinned)