How long doPumpkin seedslast in the fridge?

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.

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

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.

Turning the range into a date

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

Is this window about safety or about taste?

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, judge it by look and smell: this window rates how good the food will be, not the day it becomes a hazard.

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 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 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?

7 items in the Shelf Stable Foods list keep exactly as long as Pumpkin seeds, raw, no shell, 6 months, so they all share place 56 of 70 rather than being put in an order the data does not support.

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.

• Fruits, dried, raisins, apricots, mangoes, cranberries, etc.keeps exactly as long
• Cashews, no shellkeeps exactly as long
• Roasted red peppers, jarkeeps exactly as long
• Instant breakfast drinks, bottledkeeps exactly as long
• Croutonskeeps exactly as long
• Marshmallow crèmekeeps 1 month in the pantry once openedup to 5 months sealed in the pantry

Products the USDA rates in the same places

13 other products are rated in exactly these places — pantry and refrigerator — out of the 466 in the file, so this is an uncommon shape of record. The nearest of them by keeping time are Bread, Spaghetti squash and Cilantro. They are listed below with their own answers, closest first, which is why this list differs from the one on their pages. Of the ones shown, none keeps longer than this one does. The longest-keeping of them is Bread at 3 months. Counted more loosely, by which of the three places are rated at all, 79 products match this one.

• Bread2 months in the fridge
• Spaghetti squash2 months in the pantrywhole
• Cilantro2 weeks in the fridge
• Mint2 weeks in the fridge
• Oregano2 weeks in the fridge
• Rosemary2 weeks in the fridge
• Chives2 weeks in the fridge
• Thyme2 weeks in the fridge

The rest of the Shelf Stable Foods shelf

The USDA puts this product on the Shelf Stable Foods shelf together with 69 others, and 55 of them keep longer outside the freezer. The shelf runs from Coconut cream at 5 years down to Polenta at 7 days. Nearest this product by window are Fruits, dried, Cashews and Roasted red peppers, which is the order the list below is printed in. Across the whole of Shelf Stable Foods the same product ranks 56 of 70. The middle of the shelf is Sunflower oil, at 1 year.

• Fruits, dried6 months6 months in the fridge once opened
• Cashews6 months6 months sealed in the fridge
• Roasted red peppers6 months4 months in the fridge
• Breadcrumbs6 months6 months in the pantry
• Instant breakfast drinks6 months6 months in the pantry
• Croutons6 months5 months in the fridge
• Marshmallow crème5 months1 month in the pantry once opened
• Crackers8 months3 months in the fridge once opened

If it has to keep longer than this

If it has to keep longer than 6 months, the Shelf Stable Foods aisle gives 47 products that hold at least twice as long outside the freezer. The smallest step up is Cereal at 12 months against this one's 6 months; after it come Toaster pastries, Macadamias and Peanuts. They are printed below in the order the step gets bigger, not alphabetically. In the other direction, 6 entries in the category keep half as long or less, Cashew butter and Pine nuts among them. The largest step the category offers is Sesame seeds at 5 years.

• Cereal12 months2 months in the pantry once opened
• Toaster pastries12 months1 week in the pantry once opened
• Macadamias12 months12 months sealed in the fridge
• Peanuts12 months12 months sealed in the fridge
• Pistachios12 months12 months sealed in the fridge
• Walnuts12 months9 months sealed in the fridge
• Dry stuffing mix12 months9 months in the pantry
• Sunflower seeds12 months7 months in the fridge once opened

The record this page is built from

The USDA publishes 4 separate rows under this name — records 604, 605, 606 and 607 — and this page carries all of them rather than picking one, because their windows differ. Between them they fill 2 of the nine storage slots with a time. 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. 1 slot is marked not recommended, which is an answer rather than a gap.

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: pumpkin, pumpkin seed, seed, seeds

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