Ingredients · Tinned and jarred vegetables
Chopped tomatoes (tinned)
How long it keeps
About 12 months unopened
Once opened, about 2 days, refrigerated.
Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 373 Canned goods, high acid (such as juices, fruit, pickles, sauerkraut, tomato soup, and foods in vinegar-based sauce), 12–18 Months · 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 backbone of most of this cooking. Decant leftovers; do not store in the opened tin.
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 400 g
- Weight packed
- 448 g
- Volume
- 470 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
- 19 kcal
- Protein
- 1.1 g
- Fibre
- 0.8 g
- Vitamin C
- 11 mg
- Vitamin A
- 55 µg
- Omega-3
- not measured
- Sodium
- 5 mg
Source: CoFID 2021: 13-530 Tomatoes, canned, whole contents
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- Smoky chickpea and tomato stew
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