How long does Juice last in the fridge once opened?
Turning the range into a date
Juice keeps 8–12 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 by8 days to 12 days after the day you opened it
A short window, and what shortens it further
This item is one of the short-lived entries in the data: 12 days outside the freezer, position 16 of 22 in the Beverages list. At that scale a day of delay is a large share of the whole window, which is why the figure is printed as a range rather than an average. On the same shelf it sits 16 of 22, between Apple cider, fresh at 3 weeks and Soy or rice beverage at 10 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. The pantry slot is not blank either: the source answers it in words, below.
- In the pantryPackage use-by date
- Once opened · in the fridge8 days to 12 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 pantry 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 juice?
The USDA prints no freezer time for juice. 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.
How to tell if juice has gone bad
Go by the date first: juice keeps 8–12 days in the fridge once opened. Unexpected fizzing, cloudiness, floating strands or a sour smell mean it goes out. Once opened, keep it in the fridge at 40 °F or below. Keep the fridge at 40 °F or below and the freezer at 0 °F.
Sources: USDA FSIS: the danger zone USDA FSIS: freezing 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 8 days to 12 days in the fridge once opened. Nothing here names the food: neither Juice, boxes nor the heading it sits under says whether it spoils dangerously or keeps itself. Past it, take the shorter of the two answers: we would rather print that the record does not settle it than pick one for you.
It is past the date. Now what?
Say the calculator above puts Juice, boxes past its 8 days to 12 days in the fridge once opened window. If the food is moist, low in acid and ready to eat — a sauce, a drink, a filling — treat the date as a limit and throw it out untasted; otherwise look and smell, and out it goes if either is off.
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
The 6 items below are the closest match to this item by storage behavior, running 6 days to 3 weeks and bracketing its 12 days.
- Soy or rice beveragekeeps 7–10 days in the fridge once opened
- Orange juicekeeps 7–10 days in the fridge once openedcommercially packaged carton
- Yuzu, fruit, freshkeeps 5–7 days in the fridge
- Apple juice, fresh squeezedkeeps 6 days in the fridge
- Carrot juice, fresh squeezedkeeps 6 days in the fridge
- Fruit Juice in cartons, fruit drinks, punchkeeps 8–12 days in the fridge once openedup to 3 weeks sealed in the pantry
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: box, boxes, Juice
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.