Ingredients · Condiments and seasoning

Yeast extract

How long it keeps

Not yet sourced. We have not found a figure for this from an authority we are willing to quote, so the field is left empty rather than filled with a plausible guess. Go by the date on the pack.

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. A jar lasts most people a year and does more for a pan of lentils than anything else of its weight: concentrated savoury depth where there is no stock, no fresh onion and no browning. Very high in sodium, so it is seasoning rather than an ingredient.

The pack

Typical UK size
250 g
Weight packed
330 g
Volume
300 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
180 kcal
Protein
40.7 g
Fibre
0 g
Vitamin C
0 mg
Vitamin A
0 µg
Omega-3
not measured
Sodium
4300 mg

Source: CoFID 2021, 17-517 Yeast extract

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