How long doesOrange juicelast in the fridge once opened?

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. The freezer from the day of purchase figure alone spans 8 months to 12 months, a factor of 1.5.

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.

Turning the range into a date

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

Is this window about safety or about taste?

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. Held at 0 °F food stays safe for as long as it stays frozen, which is why a freezer figure counts as quality on this site whatever the food is. 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 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 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?

2 items in the Beverages list keep exactly as long as Orange juice, commercially packaged carton, 10 days, so they all share place 17 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 48% of them.

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 3 weeks and bracketing its 10 days.

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

Products the USDA rates in the same places

No other product in the file is rated in exactly this set of places: freezer, freezer from the day of purchase, refrigerator and refrigerator after opening, and nothing else. That makes the shape of this record unique among the 466 products here, so the closest comparisons available are the entries that share most of it — Lemon juice, Apple juice and Carrot juice. Their windows are printed beside them below, and none of them is rated in quite the same way. Of the 8 shown, 5 keep longer than this one.

Nothing carries this exact set of places, so these share most of it.

• Lemon juice2 months in the fridge once openedup to 18 months sealed in the pantry
• Apple juice6 days in the fridge
• Carrot juice6 days in the fridge
• Yuzu juice3 months in the fridge once openedup to 12 months sealed in the fridge
• Vegetable juice18 months sealed in the pantryshelf-stable
• Coffee1 month in the fridge once openedcommercial ground, non-vacuum · up to 2 years sealed in the pantry
• Soy or rice beverage7 days in the fridge once opened
• Juice8 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 16 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, Juice and Yuzu, which is the order the list below is printed in. The order counts the longest window outside the freezer, so Orange juice, commercially packaged carton sits here at 10 days rather than at the 7 days in the fridge once opened its own answer prints.

• Soy or rice beverage10 days7 days in the fridge once opened
• Juice12 days8 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
• Soda3 days2 days in the fridge once opened
• Fruit Juice in cartons3 weeks8 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 10 days, the Beverages aisle gives 15 products that hold at least twice as long outside the freezer. The smallest step up is Fruit Juice in cartons at 3 weeks against this one's 10 days; after it come Apple cider, Cream liquors and Coconut water. They are printed below in the order the step gets bigger, not alphabetically. In the other direction, 1 entry in the category keeps half as long or less, Soda among them. The largest step the category offers is Nutrition supplement drinks at 5 years.

• Fruit Juice in cartons3 weeks8 days in the fridge once opened
• Apple cider3 weeks2 weeks in the fridge
• 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

The record this page is built from

The USDA publishes 3 separate rows under this name — records 455, 456 and 457 — and this page carries all of them rather than picking one, because their windows differ. Between them they fill 4 of the nine storage slots with a time. 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. The record carries 2 handling notes, quoted on this page word for word.

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: 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

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