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A small gluten-free grain, eaten far more widely outside the West than in it. Sixty days is short for a grain and reflects the oil it carries.

How long it keeps

Unopened, this keeps 2 months — which is what puts it on the long shelf.

As sold Unopened, in the cupboard Once opened
whole grain 2 months

Counted from the date on the package. 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.