Sago pearls (sabudana, tapioca)
How long it keeps
About 12 months unopened
Once opened, about 365 days.
Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 243 Tapiocas, 12 Months; 12 Months after opening · https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fsis-foodkeeper-data
What ends it. It takes up water from the air, which is what makes it cake, soften or grow mould. How to make it last longer
Storage
Cool, dry, airtight. Nearly pure starch, so there is very little in it to go off; damp is the enemy. Sold in Asian grocers and online, usually in 500 g bags.
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 500 g
- Weight packed
- 510 g
- Volume
- 650 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
- 359 kcal
- Protein
- 0.4 g
- Fibre
- not measured
- Vitamin C
- 0 mg
- Vitamin A
- 0 µg
- Omega-3
- not measured
- Sodium
- 4 mg
Source: CoFID 2021, 11-027 Tapioca, raw