How long do Fruits, dried last in the fridge once opened?
Turning the range into a date
Fruits, dried keep 6 months 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, 3 rows in all.
- Unopened · in the pantryUse by6 months after the day you bought it
- Once opened · in the pantryUse by1 month after the day you opened it
- Once opened · in the fridgeUse by6 months after the day you opened it
The methods the USDA actually rates for this item
The USDA rates only 3 of its nine storage methods for this item, and the pantry from the day of purchase, pantry after opening and refrigerator after opening are what it rates. The other 6 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 56 of 70, between Almonds at 8 months and Cashews, no shell at 6 months.
Every storage figure the USDA publishes for this item
The USDA gives this item a pantry and a refrigerator figure and no freezer figure at all, the pattern behind 79 of the 466 foods in the data. The source also indexes it as cranberry.
- Unopened · in the pantry6 months
- Once opened · in the pantry1 month
- Once opened · in the fridge6 months
Can you freeze fruits, dried?
The USDA prints no freezer time for fruits, dried. Frozen at 0 °F any food stays safe; whether they are still good after thawing is a matter of quality. Keep the fridge at 40 °F or below and the freezer at 0 °F.
How to tell if fruits, dried have gone bad
Go by the date first: fruits, dried keep 6 months in the fridge once opened. A sour or off smell, mold, slime or an odd color mean it goes out. The bacteria that make people sick change none of these, so past its window it goes out even if it seems fine. Never taste to test.
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 6 months in the fridge once opened. 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.
It is past the date. Now what?
Say the calculator above puts it past its 6 months in the fridge once opened window. Past that the calendar stops deciding and the food itself does. A rancid, paint-like smell in a nut, an oil or a seed, mold around the neck of a bottle, or a swollen can 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.
Two places, and one of them is the wrong one
The USDA rates two places for it in one state and they disagree: 6 months in the fridge once opened against 1 month in the pantry once opened. This page answers with the refrigerator, the longer of the two. 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.
Items that behave the same way
All 5 of the 6 items nearest this item keep exactly as long as it does, 6 months, 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: apricot, apricots, cranberries, cranberry, dried, fruit, Fruits, mangoe, mangoes, raisin, raisins
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.