How long does Cut fruit last in the fridge once opened?
Turning the range into a date
Cut fruit keeps 4 days in the fridge once opened. Two clocks run on this item: one from the day it went into storage and one from the day the seal broke. Both are listed below, 1 row in all.
- Once opened · in the fridgeUse by4 days after the day you opened 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 in the refrigerator after opening. The source prints that verdict without a reason, and a reason we made up would be ours rather than theirs. 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.
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.
- In the freezernot recommended
- In the fridgePackage use-by date
- Once opened · in the fridge4 days
Where the USDA answers in words instead of days
1 of the nine slots the USDA keeps for this item holds an answer that is not a number, and an answer in words is still an answer: in the fridge it answers with the package date rather than a number, and the use-by date printed on that particular package is the figure to go by.
Can you freeze cut fruit?
The USDA does not recommend freezing cut fruit. It is not a safety warning, since food held at 0 °F stays safe, but it comes back changed. Keep the fridge at 40 °F or below and the freezer at 0 °F.
How to tell if cut fruit has gone bad
Go by the date first: cut fruit keeps 4 days in the fridge once opened. An off smell, mold or a slimy film mean it goes out, but leftovers can carry harmful bacteria with none of those signs, so the calendar decides first. Never taste to test.
Sources: USDA FSIS: the danger zone USDA FSIS: freezing and food safety USDA FSIS: leftovers and food safety 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 in the fridge once opened. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Fruit, cut is cut and ready to eat. 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 Fruit, cut past its 4 days in the fridge once opened 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
All 6 of the 6 items nearest this item keep exactly as long as it does, 4 days, so the ranking around it is a tie rather than an order.
- Poultry pieces, covered with gravy or brothkeeps exactly as long
- Leftoverskeeps exactly as long
- Guacamolekeeps exactly as long
- Main dishes or meals, hot or refrigeratedkeeps exactly as long
- Soup, stewskeeps exactly as long
- Seafood salads, (tuna salad, shrimp salad, salmon salad, mixed seafood salad, etc.)keeps exactly as long
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: cut, Fruit
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