Sardines (tinned, in oil)
How long it keeps
About 24 months unopened
Once opened, about 2 days, refrigerated.
Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 372 Canned goods, low acid (such as meat, poultry, fish, gravy, stew, soups, beans, carrots, corn, pasta, peas, potatoes, spinach), 2–5 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. One of the few genuinely good sources of omega-3 in a cupboard (§7).
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 120 g
- Weight packed
- 144 g
- Volume
- 150 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
- 220 kcal
- Protein
- 23.3 g
- Fibre
- 0 g
- Vitamin C
- 0 mg
- Vitamin A
- not measured
- Omega-3
- 2.54 g
- Sodium
- 400 mg
Source: CoFID 2021: 16-440 Sardines, canned in olive oil, drained