Ingredients · Dried pulses

Kidney beans (dried)

How long it keeps

About 12 months unopened

Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 334 Lentils, dried, 1 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. Must be soaked and boiled hard before use, and must never be slow cooked raw.

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The pack

Typical UK size
500 g
Weight packed
508 g
Volume
620 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
266 kcal
Protein
22.1 g
Fibre
not measured
Vitamin C
4 mg
Vitamin A
2 µg
Omega-3
not measured
Sodium
18 mg

Source: CoFID 2021: 13-109 Beans, red kidney, dried, raw

1 recipe using kidney beans (dried)