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Sesame seeds

How long it keeps

About 60 months unopened

Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 613 Sesame seeds, 5 Years · 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, airtight. Toast before use, always. Untoasted they taste of almost nothing.

The pack

Typical UK size
200 g
Weight packed
208 g
Volume
280 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
598 kcal
Protein
18.2 g
Fibre
not measured
Vitamin C
0 mg
Vitamin A
1 µg
Omega-3
0.15 g
Sodium
20 mg

Source: CoFID 2021: 14-844 Sesame seeds

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