Tinned pears (in juice)

How long it keeps

About 12 months unopened

Once opened, about 2 days, refrigerated.

Source (unopened): 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

Source (once opened): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-to-chill-freeze-and-defrost-food-safely/how-to-chill-freeze-and-defrost-food-safely

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

Tinned pears

Tinned pears are softer and more floral than tinned peaches, and they take warmth and spice well, which makes them the best of the tinned fruits for cooking rather than eating cold. Buy them in juice rather than syrup.

Here they go three ways: pears with ginger custard, pears under a cornflake crust, and spiced pear porridge, where the juice goes into the oats instead of sugar.

How long they keep

Unopened: USDA FoodKeeper gives high-acid tins, fruit included, 12 to 18 months. That is a shorter life than most tins in the cupboard, so rotate them: newest to the back, as in rotation and FIFO.

Opened: the Food Standards Agency advises not to store food in an opened can (FSA). Decant what is left into a covered container, keep it in the fridge, and eat it within two days.

What they give you

Per 100 g with juice, CoFID records 33 kcal and 3 mg of vitamin C, so pears are a pudding rather than a source of vitamins. If vitamin C matters for the trip, tinned fruit cocktail and mandarins carry more.

Storage

Cool, dark. Softer and more floral than tinned peaches.

The pack

Typical UK size: 410 g
Weight packed: 458 g
Volume: 480 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: 33 kcal
Protein: 0.3 g
Fibre: not measured
Vitamin C: 3 mg
Vitamin A: 0 µg
Omega-3: not measured
Sodium: 3 mg

Source: CoFID 2021: 14-197 Pears, canned in juice, whole contents