Dates (dried, pitted)
How long it keeps
About 6 months unopened
Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 379 Fruits, dried, raisins, apricots, mangoes, cranberries, etc., 6 Months · 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, sealed. Sweet enough to replace sugar outright, and they melt into a hot liquid.
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 250 g
- Weight packed
- 258 g
- Volume
- 280 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
- 235 kcal
- Protein
- 2.4 g
- Fibre
- 7.5 g
- Vitamin C
- 0 mg
- Vitamin A
- 2 µg
- Omega-3
- not measured
- Sodium
- 11 mg
Source: CoFID 2021: 14-394 Dates, dried, flesh and skin