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Dried unripe peppercorns, the most-traded spice there is. Cracked keeps a year longer than pre-ground, and grinding at the table beats both.
How long it keeps
Unopened, this keeps 3 years — which is what puts it on the long shelf.
| As sold | Unopened, in the cupboard | Once opened |
|---|---|---|
| ground, dried, commercially bottled or purchased in bulk | 2 years | — |
| cracked, dried, commercially bottled or purchased in bulk | 2–3 years | — |
Counted from the day you bought it. Figures are the USDA FSIS FoodKeeper table's, for unopened storage at room temperature; FoodKeeper counts a month as 30 days.
The table was not pulled from USDA — fsis.usda.gov answers 403 to non-browser clients from this machine — so it came from a mirror of the data.gov dataset and its vintage is unverified. Treat a single figure as indicative, not as a use-by date.
Related
- Keeps 60 days or more — the whole cupboard list, by aisle.
- Ingredients — the wider shelf.
- Same aisle — Shelf Stable Foods: Salt · Canned goods · Coconut cream · Coconut milk · Garlic powder.