Meatballs (tinned, in gravy)
How long it keeps
About 60 months unopened
Once opened, about 2 days, refrigerated.
Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 111 Meat products, canned, 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 gravy is half the tin and most of the salt, so it is an ingredient rather than a meal: drain it and you have browned meat, keep it and you have the base of a sauce. Do not do both by accident.
Worth reading
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 410 g
- Weight packed
- 450 g
- Volume
- 420 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
- 123 kcal
- Protein
- 10 g
- Fibre
- 0.9 g
- Vitamin C
- 20 mg
- Vitamin A
- 57 µg
- Omega-3
- not measured
- Sodium
- 60 mg
Source: CoFID 2021, 19-613 Meatballs, pork and beef, in tomato sauce, homemade