How long doesApple juicelast in the fridge?

Freezing changes the unit, not just the number

Here the freezer does not so much extend the answer as replace it. 6 days in the refrigerator becomes 12 months in the freezer: 60 times longer, and days turning into months. Across the methods rated, the longest beats the shortest by 60 times, 12 months against 6 days.

Every storage figure the USDA publishes for this item

The USDA rates this item cold or frozen and never at room temperature: no pantry figure exists for it, as for 222 of the 466 foods in the data that get no pantry time at all.

• In the freezer12 months
• In the fridge6 days

Turning the range into a date

The window here is 6 days, short enough that the day it went in is worth writing down. The field for this one is at the top of the page, above the answer it changes.

• In the freezerUse by12 months after the day you stored it
• In the fridgeUse by6 days after the day you stored it

Is this window about safety or about taste?

The answer at the top of this page reads 6 days in the fridge. Nothing here names the food: neither Apple juice, fresh squeezed nor the heading it sits under says whether it spoils dangerously or keeps itself. Past it, take the shorter of the two answers: we would rather print that the record does not settle it than pick one for you.

The figure in the freezer here is a quality window. The same page carries windows of more than one kind, so which sentence applies depends on which row you are reading, not on the food. Held at 0 °F food stays safe for as long as it stays frozen, which is why a freezer figure counts as quality on this site whatever the food is. Every figure assumes the food was sound when you stored it, that your refrigerator holds 40 °F or below and your freezer 0 °F or below, and that the package was handled normally.

It is past the date. Now what?

Say the calculator above puts Apple juice, fresh squeezed past its 6 days in the fridge window. If the food is moist, low in acid and ready to eat — a sauce, a drink, a filling — treat the date as a limit and throw it out untasted; otherwise look and smell, and out it goes if either is off.

The USDA's limit for perishable food standing at room temperature is 2 hours, or 1 hour when the kitchen is above 90 °F, and that clock runs whatever the storage figure says. Freezing stops the clock but does not turn it back: food already past its window is not rescued by putting it in the freezer. The FoodKeeper entry this page is built from prints storage times and nothing else, so anything past them here is USDA and FSIS guidance rather than a figure from the source. The whole rule, including the cases the source does not cover, is set out under what to do when the date has passed.

Is that a long time?

2 items in the Beverages list keep exactly as long as this item, 6 days, so they all share place 20 of 22 rather than being put in an order the data does not support. Among the 340 foods the USDA also gives a refrigerator figure, it keeps longer than 38% of them.

Items that behave the same way

The 6 items below are the closest match to this item by storage behavior, running 3 days to 3 weeks and bracketing its 6 days.

• Yuzu, fruit, freshkeeps 5 days in the fridge
• Soda, carbonated cola drinks, mixers, diet sodas; bottles or canskeeps 2 days in the fridge once opened
• Soy or rice beveragekeeps 7 days in the fridge once opened
• Orange juicekeeps 7 days in the fridge once openedcommercially packaged carton
• Juice, boxeskeeps 8 days in the fridge once opened
• Fruit Juice in cartons, fruit drinks, punchkeeps 8 days in the fridge once openedup to 3 weeks sealed in the pantry

Products the USDA rates in the same places

This is a common shape of record: 33 of the 466 products are rated in the same places, freezer and refrigerator, and 7 of the nine slots are left blank on all of them. Sorted by how close their windows are to this one, the nearest are Cooked rice, Carrot juice and Cooked pasta, and the rest of that group is what the list below draws on. Of the 8 shown, 2 keep longer than this one. The longest-keeping of them is Pineapple at 7 days.

• Cooked rice4 days in the fridge
• Carrot juice6 days in the fridge
• Cooked pasta3 days in the fridge
• Peaches3 days in the fridge
• Pineapple5 days in the fridge
• Plantains3 days in the fridge
• Zucchini1 week in the fridge
• Egg dishes3 days in the fridge

The rest of the Beverages shelf

The USDA puts this product on the Beverages shelf together with 21 others, and 19 of them keep longer outside the freezer. The shelf runs from Red wine at 5 years down to Soda at 3 days. Nearest this product by window are Carrot juice, Yuzu and Soda, which is the order the list below is printed in. Across the whole of Beverages the same product ranks 20 of 22. The middle of the shelf is Coconut water, at 12 months. 2 products on this shelf publish no window outside the freezer and stay out of the order.

• Carrot juice6 days6 days in the fridge
• Yuzu7 days5 days in the fridge
• Soda3 days2 days in the fridge once opened
• Soy or rice beverage10 days7 days in the fridge once opened
• Orange juice10 days7 days in the fridge once opened
• Juice12 days8 days in the fridge once opened
• Fruit Juice in cartons3 weeks8 days in the fridge once opened
• Apple cider3 weeks2 weeks in the fridge

If it has to keep longer than this

If it has to keep longer than 6 days, the Beverages aisle gives 16 products that hold at least twice as long outside the freezer. The smallest step up is Juice at 12 days against this one's 6 days; after it come Fruit Juice in cartons, Apple cider and Cream liquors. They are printed below in the order the step gets bigger, not alphabetically. In the other direction, 1 entry in the category keeps half as long or less, Soda among them. The largest step the category offers is Nutrition supplement drinks at 5 years.

• Juice12 days8 days in the fridge once opened
• Fruit Juice in cartons3 weeks8 days in the fridge once opened
• Apple cider3 weeks2 weeks in the fridge
• Cream liquors8 months6 months in the pantry
• Coconut water12 months1 day in the fridge once opened
• Yuzu juice12 months3 months in the fridge once opened
• Nectar18 months12 months sealed in the pantry
• Lime juice18 months2 months in the fridge once opened

The record this page is built from

This page is built from a single FoodKeeper row, record 537 — the source’s own number for it, not a position — one of the 661 rows in the snapshot. That row fills 2 of the nine storage slots with a time, and the source prints its binding figure in days, so the window at the top of this page is the source's own number untouched. Every figure here comes from one fixed snapshot, USDA FoodKeeper, retrieved 1 September 2026, and is not refreshed page by page.

Where these numbers come from

Every range on this page is published by the USDA FoodKeeper and reproduced unchanged. The multipliers, the rankings, the percentages and the dates are ours, computed from those ranges. Where the source gives a span such as 3 to 5 weeks, comparisons use the upper figure, and the full span is always printed.

Rankings cover only the items the USDA gives a usable figure for, and identical ranges share a place rather than being ordered arbitrarily. Neighbors are chosen by nearest storage time within the same category, never alphabetically: two foods filed next to each other by name usually have nothing to do with each other. The freezer is excluded from ranking because it flattens almost everything.

Where the USDA lists several kinds under one name, they share one page here and every kind keeps its own windows: the source prints them as separate rows, and a page that merged them would be inventing a figure the source never published. Comparisons and the place in the category are computed for the kind the plain name means — the shell egg for eggs, the can for tuna — which is settled name by name rather than by the order the source lists its rows in, and the page names it. Where the plain name means no single kind, the page prints no single figure at all and lists the kinds instead.

Source: USDA FoodKeeper, retrieved 1 September 2026. This site computes every comparison on this page and takes responsibility for it. Found a figure that does not match the source? Tell us on the contact page, with the page and the row — the parsing is mechanical, so a mismatch is our bug and we want it. How the whole site is built, which figures are ours and where the source can be checked is on the method page.

USDA index terms: apple, Apple juice, fresh squeezed, juice, juices, squeezed

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