Ingredients · Fresh vegetables

Ginger (fresh root)

How long it keeps

About 2 weeks in the fridge

Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 286 Ginger root, 2–3 Weeks, refrigerated from date of purchase · https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fsis-foodkeeper-data

What ends it. It is fresh produce. It starts to wilt, soften and rot from the day it was picked, and the fridge only slows that down. How to make it last longer

Storage

In the fridge, unpeeled. Scrape the skin off with a teaspoon rather than a knife.

The pack

Typical UK size
100 g
Weight packed
102 g
Volume
130 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
44 kcal
Protein
1.8 g
Fibre
2 g
Vitamin C
5 mg
Vitamin A
0 µg
Omega-3
not measured
Sodium
13 mg

Source: CoFID 2021, 13-890 Ginger, fresh

1 recipe using ginger (fresh root)