How long do Cucumbers last in the fridge?
Turning the range into a date
Cucumbers keep 4–6 days in the fridge from purchase. One row, one deadline: 6 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 by4 days to 6 days after the day you bought it
Why the freezer is not an option here
The USDA marks the freezer as not recommended for this item, so the whole answer is a single field: 4 days to 6 days in the refrigerator from the day of purchase. It is not a warning: food held at 0 °F stays safe, so a not-recommended is a verdict on what would come out of the freezer. On the same shelf it sits 64 of 89, between Kiwi fruit at 6 days and Apricots at 5 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.
- In the freezernot recommended
- From purchase · in the fridge4 days to 6 days
Can you freeze cucumbers?
The USDA does not recommend freezing cucumbers. It is not a safety warning, since food held at 0 °F stays safe, but they come back changed. Keep the fridge at 40 °F or below and the freezer at 0 °F.
How to tell if cucumbers have gone bad
Go by the date first: cucumbers keep 4–6 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. Refrigerate cut or peeled produce within 2 hours.
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 4 days to 6 days in the fridge. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Cucumbers 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 Cucumbers past its 4 days to 6 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 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 5 days to 1 week and bracketing its 6 days.
- Kiwi fruitkeeps exactly as long
- Grapeskeeps 1 week in the fridge
- Papaya, mango, feijoa, passionfruit, casaha melonkeeps 1 week in the fridge
- Peaches, nectarines, plums, pears, sapotekeeps until ripe, then 3–5 days in the fridge
- Beans and peas, green, fava, lima, soybean, wax, snow, sugar snapkeeps 3–5 days in the fridge
- Broccoli and broccoli raab (rapini)keeps 3–5 days in the fridge
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: cucumber
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