How long doesLime juicelast in the fridge once opened?

Sealed against opened

Opening the package costs 9 times here: 18 months sealed in the pantry against 2 months open in the fridge. That is a real difference and worth dating the container for, but not the collapse it becomes for the more perishable items in the same list.

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.

• Unopened · in the pantry12 months to 18 months
• Once opened · in the fridge2 months

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, 2 rows in all.

• Unopened · in the pantryUse by12 months to 18 months after the day you bought it
• Once opened · in the fridgeUse by2 months after the day you opened it

Is this window about safety or about taste?

The answer at the top of this page reads 2 months in the fridge once opened. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Lime juice is acid, dry, sweet, alcoholic or pure fat. Past it, judge it by look and smell: this window rates how good the food will be, not the day it becomes a hazard.

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 Lime juice past its 2 months in the fridge once opened window. Past that the calendar stops deciding and the food itself does. Fizzing that should not be there, cloudiness, floating strands 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.

Is that a long time?

4 items in the Beverages list keep exactly as long as this item, 18 months, so they all share place 7 of 22 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 75% of them.

Items that behave the same way

All 3 of the 6 items nearest this item keep exactly as long as it does, 18 months, so the ranking around it is a tie rather than an order.

• Nectar, papaya, mango, guava, or guavabanakeeps exactly as long
• Lemon juicekeeps exactly as long
• Vegetable juicekeeps exactly as long
• Diet powder mixes and drink mixeskeeps 1 month in the pantry once openedup to 24 months sealed in the pantry
• Coconut waterkeeps 1 day in the fridge once openedup to 12 months sealed in the pantry
• Yuzu juicekeeps 3 months in the fridge once openedup to 12 months sealed in the fridge

Products the USDA rates in the same places

This is a common shape of record: 27 of the 466 products are rated in the same places, pantry from the day of purchase and refrigerator after opening, and 7 of the nine slots are left blank on all of them. Sorted by how close their windows are to this one, the nearest are Jams, Spaghetti sauce and Pastries, and the rest of that group is what the list below draws on. Of the ones shown, none keeps longer than this one does.

• Jams6 months in the fridge once opened
• Spaghetti sauce4 days in the fridge once openedup to 18 months sealed in the pantry
• Pastries5 days sealed in the pantryup to 14 months in the fridge once opened
• Chutney1 month in the fridge once openedup to 1 year sealed in the pantry
• Ketchup6 months in the fridge once openedup to 1 year sealed in the pantry
• Marinades6 months in the fridge once openedup to 1 year sealed in the pantry
• Pickles1 month in the fridge once openedup to 1 year sealed in the pantry
• Syrup6 months in the fridge once openedup to 1 year sealed in the pantry

The rest of the Beverages shelf

The USDA puts this product on the Beverages shelf together with 21 others, and 6 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 Nectar, Lemon juice and Vegetable juice, which is the order the list below is printed in. Across the whole of Beverages the same product ranks 7 of 22. The middle of the shelf is Yuzu juice, at 12 months. 2 products on this shelf publish no window outside the freezer and stay out of the order.

• Nectar18 months12 months sealed in the pantry
• 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
• Coconut water12 months1 day in the fridge once opened
• Yuzu juice12 months3 months in the fridge once opened
• White wine2 years1 day in the fridge once opened
• Coffee2 years1 month in the fridge once opened

If it has to keep longer than this

If it has to keep longer than 18 months, Beverages offers 3 products that hold at least twice as long outside the freezer. The nearest step up is Tea at 36 months against this one's 18 months, and the rest are Red wine and Nutrition supplement drinks. A short list like this one is itself the finding: the category has few longer options. In the other direction, 10 entries in the category keep half as long or less, Cream liquors and Fruit Juice in cartons among them.

• Tea36 months6 months in the pantry once opened
• Red wine5 years1 day in the fridge once opened
• Nutrition supplement drinks5 years2 days in the fridge once opened

The record this page is built from

This page is built from a single FoodKeeper row, record 447 — the source’s own number for it, not a position — one of the 661 rows in the snapshot. That row fills 2 of the nine storage slots with a time, and the binding figure on it is printed by the source in months, which is the unit this page keeps rather than converting it to days. Every figure here comes from one fixed snapshot, USDA FoodKeeper, retrieved 1 September 2026, and is not refreshed page by page.

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: juice, lime

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