Ingredients · Dried and salted fish
Salt cod (saltfish, dried, skinless and boneless)
How long it keeps
About 24 months in the fridge
Source: Nofima, “Two-year minimum shelf life for clipfish” (2015): at 4°C or below it “will keep for at least two years”; at 30°C at least 17 days at 80% humidity · https://nofima.com/results/two-year-minimum-shelf-life-for-clipfish/ · accessed 2026-11-13
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
Cold and dry. The two-year figure is for fish kept at 4°C or below; warm storage cuts it to weeks, and warmth lets salt-loving bacteria turn it red. It must be soaked before cooking, in the fridge: soaking above 10°C spoils it. Sold as saltfish in the world foods aisle. Check the pack for which fish it is.
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 200 g
- Weight packed
- 215 g
- Volume
- 400 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
- 148 kcal
- Protein
- 34.5 g
- Fibre
- not measured
- Vitamin C
- 0 mg
- Vitamin A
- not measured
- Omega-3
- not measured
- Sodium
- 7530 mg
Source: CoFID 2021, 16-158 White fish, dried, salted