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How long do Pumpkin seeds last in the fridge?

4 kinds · each with its own window

Pumpkin seeds, raw, no shell · In the fridge

Use by6 months

Counted from the day you stored it

Quality window · past it, judge it yourself

How this date is worked out

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Turning the range into a date

Pumpkin seeds (raw, no shell) keep 6 months in the fridge. Each kind gets its own dated rows here, 5 rows across the 4 the USDA lists under this name, because a date is only worth printing against the window it belongs to.

Pumpkin seeds, raw, no shell

In the pantryUse by6 months after the day you stored it
In the fridgeUse by6 months after the day you stored it

Pumpkin seeds, raw, in-shell

In the pantryUse by6 months after the day you stored it

Pumpkin seeds, roasted, no-shell

In the pantryUse by6 months after the day you stored it

Pumpkin seeds, roasted, in-shell

In the pantryUse by6 months after the day you stored it

Pumpkin seeds, raw, no shell · In the pantry

6 months

Counted from the day you stored it

The USDA rates 4 kinds of this separately

The USDA files 4 separate entries under this name — raw, no shell, raw, in-shell, roasted, no-shell and roasted, in-shell — and gives every one of them the same window outside the freezer, 6 months. They are separate rows in the source rather than separate answers to the question.

The methods the USDA actually rates for this item

The USDA rates only 2 of its nine storage methods anywhere in the 4 kinds it lists under this name, and the pantry and refrigerator are what it rates. The other 7 slots are blank in every kind, and a blank is not a zero. On the same shelf it sits 56 of 70, between Roasted red peppers, jar at 6 months and Breadcrumbs, commercial at 6 months.

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.

Pumpkin seeds, raw, no shell

In the pantry6 months
In the fridge6 months

Pumpkin seeds, raw, in-shell

In the pantry6 months
In the fridgenot recommended

Pumpkin seeds, roasted, no-shell

In the pantry6 months

Pumpkin seeds, roasted, in-shell

In the pantry6 months

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What the USDA adds in words

The USDA attaches 1 handling note to this item, reproduced below word for word. It is not a storage time: it qualifies the figure above rather than replacing it. 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.

Pumpkin seeds, roasted, no-shell, in the refrigerator. Refrigeration not necessary for unsalted pumpkin seeds.

Can you freeze pumpkin seeds?

The USDA prints no freezer time for pumpkin seeds. 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 pumpkin seeds have gone bad

Go by the date first: pumpkin seeds keep 6 months in the fridge. A sour or off smell, mold, slime or an odd color mean it goes out. The bacteria that make people sick change none of these, so past its window it goes out even if it seems fine. Never taste to test.

Sources: USDA FSIS: the danger zone USDA FSIS: freezing and food safety USDA FSIS: molds on food 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 6 months in the fridge. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Pumpkin seeds, raw, no shell is acid, dry, sweet, alcoholic or pure fat. 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.

It is past the date. Now what?

Say the calculator above puts Pumpkin seeds, raw, no shell past its 6 months in the fridge window. Past that the calendar stops deciding and the food itself does. A rancid, paint-like smell in a nut, an oil or a seed, mold around the neck of a bottle, or a swollen can mean it goes out whatever the date 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

All 5 of the 6 items nearest Pumpkin seeds, raw, no shell keep exactly as long as it does, 6 months, so the ranking around it is a tie rather than an order.

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 Pumpkin seeds, raw, no shell, 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: pumpkin, pumpkin seed, seed, seeds

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.