Olive oil
How long it keeps
About 6 months unopened
Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 227 Oils, olive or vegetable, 6–12 Months · https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fsis-foodkeeper-data
What ends it. The fat in it turns rancid, and that happens long before anything else goes wrong. How to make it last longer
Storage
Cool, dark. Light degrades it, so the tin or dark bottle is worth it. Never infuse it with fresh garlic or herbs and leave it at ambient.
Worth reading
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 500 ml
- Weight packed
- 500 g
- Volume
- 560 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
- 899 kcal
- Protein
- 0 g
- Fibre
- 0 g
- Vitamin C
- 0 mg
- Vitamin A
- not measured
- Omega-3
- 0.7 g
- Sodium
- 0 mg
Source: CoFID 2021: 17-038 Oil, olive
71 recipes using olive oil
- Alfalfa sprout and chickpea wraps
- Anchovy and olive flatbread
- Anchovy, chilli and tomato pasta
- Apricot and chickpea tagine
- Arrabbiata with passata
- Barley and bean broth
- Big-batch tomato base
- Biscuit and jam pan pudding
- Borlotti beans in tomato
- Braised green beans in tomato
- Bulgur and tomato salad
- Bulgur with dates, almonds and cinnamon
- Butter beans in tomato and oregano
- Chickpea and tahini mash
- Chorizo and apricot stew
- Chorizo and chickpea stew
- Chorizo and potato soup
- Chorizo with soft polenta
- Couscous with sun-dried tomato and almonds
- Crab and lemon on oatcakes
- Dried mushroom and bulgur soup
- Flatbread pizza with passata
- Fried breadcrumbs with chorizo
- Green bean and tuna salad
- Green lentils with mustard dressing
- Harissa and chickpea soup
- Harissa chickpea wraps
- Harissa chickpeas with couscous
- Kidney bean and tomato soup
- Mandarin and almond couscous
- Meatballs with pasta and passata
- Miso and mushroom pasta
- Mixed bean and paprika stew
- Mussel and tomato rice
- Mussels with garlic flatbread
- Nut and sesame dukkah
- Olive and caper tapenade
- Pan flatbread
- Paprika potatoes with hot sauce
- Pasta e fagioli
- Pasta with chickpeas
- Pearl barley and mushroom pilaf
- Plum tomatoes braised with anchovy
- Polenta with mushrooms and garlic
- Polenta with tomato and anchovy
- Pumpernickel with tapenade and tomato
- Quinoa with apricots and almonds
- Quinoa with chickpeas and lemon
- Rice and lentils with crisp onion
- Salmon and pea pasta
- Salmon and quinoa bowl
- Sardine and toasted crumb pasta
- Sardines on flatbread with pickled cabbage
- Sauerkraut and carrot slaw
- Seeded and spiced flatbread
- Smoky chickpea and tomato stew
- Spiced carrot and chickpea soup
- Spiced rice with lentils and raisins
- Split pea and frankfurter soup
- Sun-dried tomato and white bean mash
- Tinned fish chowder
- Tinned mussels in tomato and chilli
- Tomato and flatbread soup
- Tomato and red lentil soup
- Tomato and rice soup
- Tuna and butter bean salad
- Tuna and gherkin wraps
- Tuna and sweetcorn pasta
- Tuna, caper and lemon pasta
- White bean and tomato soup
- White bean and tuna mash