Ingredients · Milk and cream substitutes
UHT milk (long-life)
How long it keeps
About 6 months unopened
Once opened, about 5 days, refrigerated.
Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 644 Milk , shelf-stable, 6–12 Months · https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fsis-foodkeeper-data
What ends it. Unopened it keeps for a long time. The clock that matters starts when you open it. How to make it last longer
Storage
Cool, dark, and the carton is opaque for a reason. Ultra heat treatment costs it a little sweetness and a faint cooked note that milk drinkers notice and tea does not. Once opened it is ordinary milk and needs a fridge.
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 1000 ml
- Weight packed
- 1060 g
- Volume
- 1040 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
- 46 kcal
- Protein
- 3.3 g
- Fibre
- 0 g
- Vitamin C
- 0 mg
- Vitamin A
- 22 µg
- Omega-3
- not measured
- Sodium
- 50 mg
Source: CoFID 2021, 12-314 Milk, semi-skimmed, UHT