How long doesEdamamelast in the fridge after thawing?
The USDA rates 3 kinds of this separately
Edamame, fresh keeps 4 days, which is shorter than the window this page answers with. The USDA files 3 separate entries under this name — fresh, frozen and salted, dry roasted, out of pod — and they do not keep for the same time: Edamame, fresh holds 4 days to 5 days outside the freezer, Edamame, salted, dry roasted, out of pod holds 12 months.
The methods the USDA actually rates for this item
The USDA rates only 4 of its nine storage methods anywhere in the 3 kinds it lists under this name, and the freezer from the day of purchase, pantry, refrigerator and refrigerator after thawing are what it rates. The other 5 slots are blank in every kind, and a blank is not a zero.
Every storage figure the USDA publishes for this item
All three places the USDA recognizes are rated here — pantry, refrigerator and freezer — which only 65 of the 466 foods in the data manage. The source also indexes it as fresh, soybeans, soybean and frozen.
Edamame, fresh
- In the fridge4 days to 5 days
Edamame, frozen
- In the freezer2 years
- Once thawed · in the fridge1 week
Edamame, salted, dry roasted, out of pod
- In the pantry12 months
- In the fridge6 months
Turning the range into a date
Each kind gets its own dated rows here, 5 rows across the 3 the USDA lists under this name, because a date is only worth printing against the window it belongs to.
Edamame, fresh
- In the fridgeUse by4 days to 5 days after the day you stored it
Edamame, frozen
- In the freezerUse by2 years after the day you bought it
- Once thawed · in the fridgeUse by1 week after the day it finished thawing
Edamame, salted, dry roasted, out of pod
- In the pantryUse by12 months after the day you stored it
- In the fridgeUse by6 months after the day you stored it
Is this window about safety or about taste?
The answer at the top of this page reads 1 week in the fridge once thawed. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Edamame, frozen is raw and whole. Past it, judge it by look and smell: this window rates how good the food will be, not the day it becomes a hazard.
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 Edamame, frozen past its 1 week in the fridge once thawed 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.
Two places, and one of them is the wrong one
The USDA rates two places for it in one state and they disagree: 12 months in the pantry against 6 months in the fridge. Of the two, the pantry is the longer. Both figures are the USDA's own, so this is a choice of where to put the food rather than a disagreement about how long it keeps.
Is that a long time?
15 items in the Produce list keep exactly as long as Edamame, frozen, 1 week, so they all share place 49 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 84% of them.
Items that behave the same way
All 6 of the 6 items nearest Edamame, frozen keep exactly as long as it does, 1 week, so the ranking around it is a tie rather than an order.
Products the USDA rates in the same places
No other product in the file is rated in exactly this set of places: freezer from the day of purchase, pantry, refrigerator and refrigerator after thawing, and nothing else. That makes the shape of this record unique among the 466 products here, so the closest comparisons available are the entries that share most of it — Basil, Cherry tomatoes and Beets. Their windows are printed beside them below, and none of them is rated in quite the same way. Of the 8 shown, 8 keep longer than this one.
Nothing carries this exact set of places, so these share most of it.
- Basil10 days in the fridgefresh
- Cherry tomatoes10 days in the pantry
- Beets1 week sealed in the fridge
- Cilantro2 weeks in the fridge
- Mint2 weeks in the fridge
- Oregano2 weeks in the fridge
- Rosemary2 weeks in the fridge
- Chives2 weeks 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 34 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 Eggplant, Mushrooms and Rhubarb, which is the order the list below is printed in. Across the whole of Produce the same product ranks 49 of 89. The middle of the shelf is Swiss chard, at 2 weeks. The shelf is the source's own subcategory, Fresh Vegetables inside Produce.
- Eggplant7 days4 days sealed in the fridge
- Mushrooms7 days3 days sealed in the fridge
- Rhubarb7 days3 days sealed in the fridge
- Taro7 days7 days sealed in the pantry
- Yuca/cassava7 days7 days sealed in the pantry
- Kohlrabi1 week1 week sealed in the fridge
- Zucchini1 week1 week in the fridge
- Hot peppers1 week1 week sealed in the fridge
If it has to keep longer than this
If it has to keep longer than 1 week, the Produce aisle gives 44 products that hold at least twice as long outside the freezer. The smallest step up is Blueberries at 2 weeks against this one's 1 week; after it come Melons, Artichokes and Bamboo shoots. They are printed below in the order the step gets bigger, not alphabetically. In the other direction, 8 entries in the category keep half as long or less, Bananas and Bok choy among them. The largest step the category offers is Coconut at 1 year.
- 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
- Cabbage2 weeks1 week sealed in the fridge
- Celery2 weeks1 week sealed in the fridge
- Leeks2 weeks1 week sealed in the fridge
The record this page is built from
The USDA publishes 3 separate rows under this name — records 640, 641 and 642 — and this page carries all of them rather than picking one, because their windows differ. Between them they fill 4 of the nine storage slots with a time. Comparisons and the place in the category are computed for Edamame, frozen, which is the kind the plain name means here, chosen kind by kind rather than by the order the source happens to list them in. The same record answers to fresh, soybeans, soybean and frozen in the source's own index.
Where these numbers come from
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: dry roasted, fresh, fresh edamame, frozen, frozen edamame, roasted, salted, soybean, soybeans
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