How long does Pineapple last in the fridge?
Turning the range into a date
Pineapple keeps 5 days in the fridge. The window here is 7 days, short enough that the day it went in is worth writing down.
- In the freezerUse by10 months to 12 months after the day you stored it
- In the fridgeUse by5 days to 7 days after the day you stored it
The methods the USDA actually rates for this item
The USDA rates only 2 of its nine storage methods for this item, and the freezer and refrigerator are what it rates. The other 7 slots are blank, and a blank is not a zero: it means no published figure, not that the method fails. On the same shelf it sits 49 of 89, between Papaya, mango, feijoa, passionfruit, casaha melon at 1 week and Eggplant at 7 days.
Every storage figure the USDA publishes for this item
The USDA gives this item no pantry time in days: the 2 figures that carry numbers are all cold ones, and the pantry slot is answered in words instead. Within Produce it is filed under Fresh Fruits.
- In the freezer10 months to 12 months
- In the pantryUntil ripe
- In the fridge5 days to 7 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 Until ripe, so the clock is the fruit's own ripening rather than a count of 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.
In the refrigerator. Timeline for refrigerator applies to ripe fruit.
In the pantry. Until Ripe, then 1-2 days. Ripe is when this item is tender, fully developed and ready to eat.
Is it still safe to eat, or just past its best?
The answer at the top of this page reads 5 days to 7 days in the fridge. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Pineapple is raw and whole. Past it, whether it has gone bad is yours to judge by look and smell: this window rates quality, not the day it turns hazardous.
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 Pineapple past its 5 days to 7 days in the fridge window. Past that the calendar stops deciding and the food itself does. Mold, a slimy or sticky surface, soft or darkened spots, 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.
The two sides of that multiplier are not the same dish
The 51× multiplier on this page is drawn across a change of preparation: the source's note on the refrigerator figure reads "Timeline for refrigerator applies to ripe fruit". It divides 12 months frozen by 7 days in the fridge, and those two are not the same dish. A multiplier whose sides are different preparations is worth printing only with the source's own scope note beside it.
Is that a long time?
15 items in the Produce list keep exactly as long as this item, 7 days, so they all share place 49 of 89 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 39% of them.
Items that behave the same way
All 6 of the 6 items nearest this item keep exactly as long as it does, 7 days, so the ranking around it is a tie rather than an order.
Products the USDA rates in the same places
This is a common shape of record: 33 of the 466 products are rated in the same places, freezer and refrigerator, 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 Zucchini, Cooked rice and Apple juice, 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 Zucchini at 1 week.
- Zucchini1 week in the fridge
- Cooked rice4 days in the fridge
- Apple juice6 days in the fridge
- Carrot juice6 days in the fridge
- Cooked pasta3 days in the fridge
- Peaches3 days in the fridge
- Plantains3 days in the fridge
- Egg dishes3 days in the fridge
The rest of the Fresh Fruits shelf
The USDA puts this product on the Fresh Fruits shelf together with 29 others, and 14 of them keep longer outside the freezer. The shelf runs from Coconut at 1 year down to Cherries at 3 days. Nearest this product by window are Grapes, Papaya and Honeydew, 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 7 days rather than at the 5 days in the fridge its own answer prints.
- Grapes1 week1 week sealed in the fridge
- Papaya1 week1 week sealed in the fridge
- Honeydew7 days2 days sealed in the pantry
- Kiwi fruit6 days3 days in the fridge
- Apricots5 days2 days in the fridge
- Peaches5 days3 days in the fridge
- Plantains5 days3 days in the fridge
- Avocados4 days3 days in the fridge
If it has to keep longer than this
If it has to keep longer than 7 days, the Produce aisle gives 44 products that hold at least twice as long outside the freezer. The smallest step up is Blueberries at 2 weeks against this one's 7 days; after it come Melons, Artichokes and Bamboo shoots. They are printed below in the order the step gets bigger, not alphabetically. In the other direction, 8 entries in the category keep half as long or less, Bananas and Bok choy among them. The largest step the category offers is Coconut at 1 year.
- Blueberries2 weeks1 week sealed in the fridge
- Melons2 weeks2 days in the fridge once opened
- Artichokes2 weeks1 week sealed in the fridge
- Bamboo shoots2 weeks5 days in the fridge once opened
- Beets2 weeks1 week sealed in the fridge
- Cabbage2 weeks1 week sealed in the fridge
- Celery2 weeks1 week sealed in the fridge
- Leeks2 weeks1 week sealed in the fridge
The record this page is built from
This page is built from a single FoodKeeper row, record 267 — 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 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
How long does this food keep in the refrigerator, in the freezer, in the pantry? Can you freeze it, and how much of its shelf life is left once the package is open? Every answer on this page is the USDA’s own published figure, one of the 9 it keeps per food, and never an estimate of ours.
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.
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