How long doesJuicelast in the fridge once opened?

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.

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.

Turning the range into a date

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

Is this window about safety or about taste?

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.

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 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 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.

Is that a long time?

Among the 22 items the USDA files under Beverages, this item ranks 16 by how long it keeps outside the freezer. Apple cider, fresh holds 3 weeks, Soy or rice beverage holds 10 days. Among the 340 foods the USDA also gives a refrigerator figure, it keeps longer than 52% of them.

Items that behave the same way

The 6 items below are the closest match to this item by storage behavior, running 3 days to 3 weeks and bracketing its 12 days.

• Soy or rice beveragekeeps 7 days in the fridge once opened
• Orange juicekeeps 7 days in the fridge once openedcommercially packaged carton
• Yuzu, fruit, freshkeeps 5 days in the fridge
• Apple juice, fresh squeezedkeeps 6 days in the fridge
• Fruit Juice in cartons, fruit drinks, punchkeeps 8 days in the fridge once openedup to 3 weeks sealed in the pantry
• Soda, carbonated cola drinks, mixers, diet sodas; bottles or canskeeps 2 days in the fridge once opened

Products the USDA rates in the same places

This is a common shape of record: 16 of the 466 products are rated in the same places, refrigerator after opening, and 8 of the nine slots are left blank on all of them. Sorted by how close their windows are to this one, the nearest are Soy or rice beverage, Soy milk and Almond milk, and the rest of that group is what the list below draws on. Of the ones shown, none keeps longer than this one does. The longest-keeping of them is Soy or rice beverage at 10 days.

• Soy or rice beverage7 days in the fridge once opened
• Soy milk7 days in the fridge once opened
• Almond milk7 days in the fridge once opened
• Rice milk7 days in the fridge once opened
• Pork roll7 days in the fridge once opened
• Retort pouches or boxes3 days in the fridge once opened
• Fruit, cut4 days in the fridge once opened
• Cream pies3 days in the fridge once opened

The rest of the Beverages shelf

The USDA puts this product on the Beverages shelf together with 21 others, and 15 of them keep longer outside the freezer. The shelf runs from Red wine at 5 years down to Soda at 3 days. Nearest this product by window are Soy or rice beverage, Orange juice and Yuzu, which is the order the list below is printed in. The order counts the longest window outside the freezer, so this item sits here at 12 days rather than at the 8 days in the fridge once opened its own answer prints.

• Soy or rice beverage10 days7 days in the fridge once opened
• Orange juice10 days7 days in the fridge once opened
• Yuzu7 days5 days in the fridge
• Apple juice6 days6 days in the fridge
• Carrot juice6 days6 days in the fridge
• Fruit Juice in cartons3 weeks8 days in the fridge once opened
• Soda3 days2 days in the fridge once opened
• Apple cider3 weeks2 weeks in the fridge

If it has to keep longer than this

If it has to keep longer than 12 days, the Beverages aisle gives 13 products that hold at least twice as long outside the freezer. The smallest step up is Cream liquors at 8 months against this one's 12 days; after it come Coconut water, Yuzu juice and Nectar. They are printed below in the order the step gets bigger, not alphabetically. In the other direction, 3 entries in the category keep half as long or less, Apple juice and Carrot juice among them. The largest step the category offers is Nutrition supplement drinks at 5 years.

• Cream liquors8 months6 months in the pantry
• Coconut water12 months1 day in the fridge once opened
• Yuzu juice12 months3 months in the fridge once opened
• Nectar18 months12 months sealed in the pantry
• Lime juice18 months2 months in the fridge once opened
• Lemon juice18 months2 months in the fridge once opened
• Vegetable juice18 months18 months sealed in the pantry
• Diet powder mixes and drink mixes24 months1 month in the pantry once opened

The record this page is built from

This page is built from a single FoodKeeper row, record 405 — the source’s own number for it, not a position — one of the 661 rows in the snapshot. That row fills 1 of the nine storage slots with a time, and the source prints its binding figure in days, so the window at the top of this page is the source's own number untouched. 1 slot is answered in words instead of days, and printed as the source wrote it.

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: box, boxes, Juice

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