How long does Apple juice last in the fridge?
Turning the range into a date
Apple juice keeps 6 days in the fridge. The window here is 6 days, short enough that the day it went in is worth writing down.
- In the freezerUse by12 months after the day you stored it
- In the fridgeUse by6 days after the day you stored it
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. On the same shelf it sits 20 of 22, between Yuzu, fruit, fresh at 7 days and Carrot juice, fresh squeezed at 6 days. Fresh squeezed, squeezed and juices are the same food in the source list.
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
Can you freeze apple juice?
Yes. The USDA gives apple juice 12 months in the freezer, and held at 0 °F food stays safe beyond that: the figure is about quality. Liquids expand as they freeze, so leave headroom in the container and never freeze a sealed glass bottle.
How to tell if apple juice has gone bad
Go by the date first: apple juice keeps 6 days in the fridge. Unexpected fizzing, cloudiness, floating strands or a sour smell mean it goes out. Once opened, keep it in the fridge at 40 °F or below. Keep the fridge at 40 °F or below and the freezer at 0 °F.
Sources: USDA FSIS: the danger zone USDA FSIS: freezing and food safety FDA: are you storing food safely FoodSafety.gov: the FoodKeeper app.
Is it still safe to eat, or just past its best?
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.
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 whole rule, including the cases the source does not cover, is set out under what to do when the date has passed.
Items that behave the same way
The 6 items below are the closest match to this item by storage behavior, running 3 days to 12 days and bracketing its 6 days.
- Carrot juice, fresh squeezedkeeps exactly as long
- Yuzu, fruit, freshkeeps 5–7 days in the fridge
- Soda, carbonated cola drinks, mixers, diet sodas; bottles or canskeeps 2–3 days in the fridge once opened
- Soy or rice beveragekeeps 7–10 days in the fridge once opened
- Orange juicekeeps 7–10 days in the fridge once openedcommercially packaged carton
- Juice, boxeskeeps 8–12 days in the fridge once opened
Where these numbers come from
Every storage time on this page is the USDA’s own published figure from the FoodKeeper data, one of the 9 it keeps per food, reproduced unchanged and never an estimate of ours. Where the USDA lists several kinds under one name, each kind keeps its own windows, and the page names the kind its answer is for. The dates and multipliers are ours, computed from those ranges.
Source: USDA FoodKeeper, retrieved 1 September 2026. Found a figure that does not match the source? Tell us on the contact page. How the site is built is on the method page.
USDA index terms: apple, Apple juice, fresh squeezed, juice, juices, squeezed
KeepsUntil is an independent reference built on public USDA data. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the U.S. Department of Agriculture or the Food and Drug Administration. Whether a given window is a safety limit or a quality window is stated on the page that prints it.