How long do Nutrition supplement drinks last in the fridge once opened?

Turning the range into a date

Nutrition supplement drinks (canned) keep 2 days in the fridge once opened. Each kind gets its own dated rows here, 2 rows across the 2 the USDA lists under this name, because a date is only worth printing against the window it belongs to.

Nutrition supplement drinks, canned

• Unopened · in the pantryUse by2 years to 5 years after the day you bought it
• Once opened · in the fridgeUse by2 days after the day you opened it

The USDA rates 2 kinds of this separately

The USDA files 2 separate entries under this name — canned and bottled — and gives every one of them the same window outside the freezer, 2 years to 5 years. They are separate rows in the source rather than separate answers to the question.

What opening the package actually costs

Opening the package is the decision that settles this page. Sealed, the item holds 5 years sealed in the pantry; once open it holds 2 days open in the fridge, the same food measured in days instead of years, a drop of 912 times. On the same shelf it sits 1 of 22, between Red wine at 5 years and Tea at 36 months. Canned, Boost and Ensure are the same food in the source 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. The source also indexes it as canned, boost, ensure and bottled.

Nutrition supplement drinks, canned

• Unopened · in the pantry2 years to 5 years
• Once opened · in the fridge2 days

Nutrition supplement drinks, bottled

• In the pantryPackage use-by date

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 nutrition supplement drinks?

The USDA prints no freezer time for nutrition supplement drinks. 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 nutrition supplement drinks have gone bad

Go by the date first: nutrition supplement drinks keep 2 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 2 days in the fridge once opened. Nothing here names the food: neither Nutrition supplement drinks, canned 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.

The figure in the pantry here is a quality window. The same page carries windows of more than one kind, so which sentence applies depends on which row you are reading, not on the food.

It is past the date. Now what?

Say the calculator above puts Nutrition supplement drinks, canned past its 2 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

Every one of the 6 nearest items keeps the same or less, 18 months to 5 years against the 5 years of Nutrition supplement drinks, canned, which makes it the durable end of the cluster.

• Red winekeeps exactly as long
• Teakeeps 6–12 months in the pantry once openedbags · up to 36 months sealed in the pantry
• White winekeeps 1–3 days in the fridge once openedup to 2 years in the pantry
• Coffeekeeps 1 month in the fridge once openedcommercial ground, non-vacuum · up to 2 years sealed in the pantry
• Diet powder mixes and drink mixeskeeps 1–3 months in the pantry once openedup to 24 months sealed in the pantry
• Nectar, papaya, mango, guava, or guavabanakeeps 12–18 months 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.

Comparisons and the place in the category are computed for Nutrition supplement drinks, canned, which is the kind the plain name means here, chosen kind by kind rather than by the order the source happens to list them in.

USDA index terms: Boost, bottled, canned, drinks, Ensure, supplement

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.