How long do Bean sprouts last in the fridge?
Turning the range into a date
Bean sprouts keep 5–10 days in the fridge from purchase. One row, one deadline: 10 days in the refrigerator from the day of purchase, counted from the day it went in rather than the day it was made.
- From purchase · in the fridgeUse by5 days to 10 days after the day you bought it
A short window, and what shortens it further
This item is one of the short-lived entries in the data: 10 days outside the freezer, position 45 of 89 in the Produce list. At that scale a day of delay is a large share of the whole window, which is why the figure is printed as a range rather than an average. On the same shelf it sits 45 of 89, between Basil at 10 days and Cherry tomatoes at 10 days.
Every storage figure the USDA publishes for this item
The refrigerator is the only place the USDA gives this item a storage time, as it does for 64 of the 466 foods the USDA lists. Within Produce it is filed under Fresh Vegetables.
- From purchase · in the fridge5 days to 10 days
Can you freeze bean sprouts?
The USDA prints no freezer time for bean sprouts. Frozen at 0 °F any food stays safe; whether they are still good after thawing is a matter of quality. Keep the fridge at 40 °F or below and the freezer at 0 °F.
How to tell if bean sprouts have gone bad
Go by the date first: bean sprouts keep 5–10 days in the fridge. Mold, slime, a sour smell or soft dark spots mean it goes out; firm produce can be saved by cutting 1 inch around a small moldy spot, soft produce cannot.
Sources: USDA FSIS: the danger zone USDA FSIS: freezing and food safety USDA FSIS: molds on food 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 5 days to 10 days in the fridge. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Bean sprouts is cooked or ready to eat and still moist. Past it, it is not safe to eat: throw it out without tasting, because bacteria build up while food still looks and smells fine.
It is past the date. Now what?
Say the calculator above puts Bean sprouts past its 5 days to 10 days in the fridge window, or the container sat out on the counter overnight. Throw the container out without tasting it, and count any hours it already spent out of the refrigerator as part of that window rather than on top of it.
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. 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
Every one of the 6 nearest items keeps the same or less, 1 week to 10 days against the 10 days of this item, which makes it the durable end of the cluster.
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: bean, sprouts
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.