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How long does Celery root last in the fridge?

In the fridge

Use by1 week

Counted from the day you stored it

Quality window · past it, judge it yourself

How this date is worked out

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Turning the range into a date

Celery root keeps 1 week in the fridge. One row, one deadline: 1 week in the refrigerator, counted from the day it went in rather than the day it was made.

In the fridgeUse by1 week after the day you stored it

The methods the USDA actually rates for this item

The USDA rates only 1 of its nine storage methods for this item, and the refrigerator is what it rates. The other 8 slots are blank, and a blank is not a zero: it means no published figure, not that the method fails. On the same shelf it sits 49 of 89, between Edamame at 1 week and Arugula at 7 days. Celeriac in the source list is this same food.

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. The source also indexes it as celeriac.

In the fridge1 week

Can you freeze celery root?

The USDA prints no freezer time for celery root. Frozen at 0 °F any food stays safe; whether it is still good after thawing is a matter of quality. Keep the fridge at 40 °F or below and the freezer at 0 °F.

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How to tell if celery root has gone bad

Go by the date first: celery root keeps 1 week 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 1 week in the fridge. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Celery root is raw and whole. 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.

It is past the date. Now what?

Say the calculator above puts Celery root past its 1 week 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 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

All 6 of the 6 items nearest this item keep exactly as long as it does, 1 week, so the ranking around it is a tie rather than an order.

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: celeriac, celery

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.