How long does Orange juice last in the fridge once opened?

Turning the range into a date

Orange juice (commercially packaged carton) keeps 7–10 days in the fridge once opened. Each kind gets its own dated rows here, 5 rows across the 3 the USDA lists under this name, because a date is only worth printing against the window it belongs to.

Orange juice, commercially packaged carton

• In the freezerUse by8 months to 12 months after the day you bought it
• Once opened · in the fridgeUse by7 days to 10 days after the day you opened it

Orange juice, commercially frozen concentrate

• In the freezerUse by12 months after the day you bought it

Orange juice, freshly squeezed

• In the freezerUse by2 weeks to 3 weeks after the day you stored it
• In the fridgeUse by2 days to 3 days after the day you stored it

The USDA rates 3 kinds of this separately

Orange juice, freshly squeezed keeps 2 days, which is shorter than the window this page answers with. The USDA files 3 separate entries under this name — commercially packaged carton, commercially frozen concentrate and freshly squeezed — and they do not keep for the same time: Orange juice, freshly squeezed holds 2 days to 3 days outside the freezer, Orange juice, commercially packaged carton holds 7 days to 10 days.

Freezing changes the unit, not just the number

Here the freezer does not so much extend the answer as replace it. 10 days in the opened fridge becomes 12 months in the freezer: 36 times longer, and days turning into months. On the same shelf it sits 17 of 22, between Soy or rice beverage at 10 days and Yuzu, fruit, fresh at 7 days. Commercially packaged carton, commercially and packaged are the same food in the source list.

Every storage figure the USDA publishes for this item

The USDA rates this item cold or frozen and never at room temperature: no pantry figure exists for it, as for 222 of the 466 foods in the data that get no pantry time at all. The source also indexes it as commercially packaged carton, commercially, packaged and carton.

Orange juice, commercially packaged carton

• In the freezer8 months to 12 months
• Once opened · in the fridge7 days to 10 days

Orange juice, commercially frozen concentrate

• In the freezer12 months
• Outside the freezer—

Orange juice, freshly squeezed

• In the freezer2 weeks to 3 weeks
• In the fridge2 days to 3 days

What the USDA adds in words

The USDA attaches 2 handling notes to this item, reproduced below word for word. None of them is a storage time: they qualify the figures above rather than replacing them. These are the source's own sentences, not ours, and they are the part of the FoodKeeper record that a table of durations cannot carry.

Orange juice, commercially packaged carton, in the refrigerator. Good for 1 week after date on package.

Orange juice, commercially frozen concentrate, in the refrigerator. After prepared for drinking, good for up to 1 week.

Can you freeze orange juice?

Yes. The USDA gives orange juice (commercially packaged carton) 8–12 months in the freezer from the day you buy it, and held at 0 °F food stays safe beyond that: the figure is about quality. Liquids expand as they freeze, so leave headroom in the container and never freeze a sealed glass bottle.

How to tell if orange juice has gone bad

Go by the date first: orange juice keeps 7–10 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 7 days to 10 days in the fridge once opened. Nothing here names the food: neither Orange juice, commercially packaged carton 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 figures in the freezer and in the freezer here are 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 Orange juice, commercially packaged carton past its 7 days to 10 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. Freezing stops the clock but does not turn it back: food already past its window is not rescued by putting it in the freezer. 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 Orange juice, commercially packaged carton by storage behavior, running 3 days to 12 days and bracketing its 10 days.

• Soy or rice beveragekeeps exactly as long
• Juice, boxeskeeps 8–12 days in the fridge once opened
• 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
• Soda, carbonated cola drinks, mixers, diet sodas; bottles or canskeeps 2–3 days in the fridge once opened

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 Orange juice, commercially packaged carton, 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: carton, commercial, commercially, commercially frozen, commercially frozen concentrate, commercially packaged, commercially packaged carton, concentrate, fresh, freshly, freshly squeezed, frozen, frozen concentrate, juice, orange, packaged, packaged carton, sqeeze, squeezed

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.