How long do Beans and peas last in the fridge?
Turning the range into a date
Beans and peas keep 3 days sealed in the fridge. The window here is 5 days, short enough that the day it went in is worth writing down.
- In the freezerUse by8 months after the day you bought it
- Unopened · in the fridgeUse by3 days to 5 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: 5 days outside the freezer, position 66 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 66 of 89, between Plantains at 5 days and Broccoli and broccoli raab (rapini) at 5 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. The source also indexes it as soya.
- In the freezer8 months
- Unopened · in the fridge3 days to 5 days
Is it still safe to eat, or just past its best?
The answer at the top of this page reads 3 days to 5 days in the fridge. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: it is acid, dry, sweet, alcoholic or pure fat. Past it, whether it has gone bad is yours to judge by look and smell: this window rates quality, not the day it turns hazardous.
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 it past its 3 days to 5 days in the fridge window. Past that the calendar stops deciding and the food itself does. Mold, a slimy or sticky surface, soft or darkened spots, or a sour smell mean it goes out whatever the date says.
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?
9 items in the Produce list keep exactly as long as this item, 5 days, so they all share place 66 of 89 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 30% of them.
Items that behave the same way
All 4 of the 6 items nearest this item keep exactly as long as it does, 5 days, so the ranking around it is a tie rather than an order.
Products the USDA rates in the same places
This is a common shape of record: 52 of the 466 products are rated in the same places, freezer from the day of purchase and refrigerator from the day of purchase, 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 Eggnog, Venison and Broccoli and broccoli raab, and the rest of that group is what the list below draws on. Of the ones shown, none keeps longer than this one does.
- Eggnog3 days sealed in the fridge
- Venison3 days sealed in the fridge
- Broccoli and broccoli raab3 days sealed in the fridge
- Brussels sprouts3 days sealed in the fridge
- Cauliflower3 days sealed in the fridge
- Kale3 days sealed in the fridge
- Rotisserie chicken3 days sealed in the fridge
- Crab legs2 days sealed in the fridge
The rest of the Fresh Vegetables shelf
The USDA puts this product on the Fresh Vegetables shelf together with 58 others, and 46 of them keep longer outside the freezer. The shelf runs from Kimchi at 12 months down to Corn on the cob at 2 days. Nearest this product by window are Broccoli and broccoli raab, Brussels sprouts and Cauliflower, which is the order the list below is printed in. The order counts the longest window outside the freezer, so this item sits here at 5 days rather than at the 3 days sealed in the fridge its own answer prints.
- Broccoli and broccoli raab5 days3 days sealed in the fridge
- Brussels sprouts5 days3 days sealed in the fridge
- Cauliflower5 days3 days sealed in the fridge
- Bagged greens5 days2 days in the fridge once opened
- Kale5 days3 days sealed in the fridge
- Asparagus4 days3 days sealed in the fridge
- Cucumbers6 days4 days sealed in the fridge
- Greens4 days1 day sealed in the fridge
If it has to keep longer than this
If it has to keep longer than 5 days, the Produce aisle gives 47 products that hold at least twice as long outside the freezer. The smallest step up is Basil at 10 days against this one's 5 days; after it come Bean sprouts, Cherry tomatoes and Blueberries. 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, Corn on the cob among them. The largest step the category offers is Coconut at 1 year.
- Basil10 days10 days in the fridge
- Bean sprouts10 days5 days sealed in the fridge
- Cherry tomatoes10 days10 days in the pantry
- Blueberries2 weeks1 week sealed in the fridge
- Melons2 weeks2 days in the fridge once opened
- Artichokes2 weeks1 week sealed in the fridge
- Bamboo shoots2 weeks5 days in the fridge once opened
- Beets2 weeks1 week sealed in the fridge
The record this page is built from
This page is built from a single FoodKeeper row, record 273 — 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. The same record answers to soya in the source's own index. It is filed under Fresh Vegetables inside Produce, which is where every shelf comparison on this page comes from.
Where these numbers come from
How long does this food keep in the refrigerator, in the freezer, in the pantry? Can you freeze it, and how much of its shelf life is left once the package is open? Every answer on this page is the USDA’s own published figure, one of the 9 it keeps per food, and never an estimate of ours.
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: Beans, fava, green, lima, pea, peas, snow, soya, soybean, sugar, sugar snap, wax
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