How long doesSodalast in the fridge once opened?

The edge of its own category

This item is the shortest-lived entry in the Beverages list: 3 days outside the freezer, against 6 days for Carrot juice, fresh squeezed, the item immediately above it. All 21 of the others keep longer. The refrigerator after opening figure alone spans 2 days to 3 days, a factor of 1.5.

Every storage figure the USDA publishes for this item

The refrigerator is the only place the USDA gives this item a storage time, as it does for 64 of the 466 foods the USDA lists.

• Once opened · in the fridge2 days to 3 days

Turning the range into a date

Two clocks run on this item: one from the day it went into storage and one from the day the seal broke. Both are listed below, 1 row in all.

• Once opened · in the fridgeUse by2 days to 3 days after the day you opened it

Is this window about safety or about taste?

The answer at the top of this page reads 2 days to 3 days in the fridge once opened. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: it 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 it past its 2 days to 3 days in the fridge once opened window. Past that the calendar stops deciding and the food itself does. Fizzing that should not be there, cloudiness, floating strands 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.

Is that a long time?

This item is the shortest-lived thing the USDA files under Beverages: 3 days, where the item above it, Carrot juice, fresh squeezed, holds 6 days and the middle of the 22-item list sits at 12 months. Among the 340 foods the USDA also gives a refrigerator figure, it keeps longer than 10% of them.

Items that behave the same way

All 6 of the nearest items keep at least as long as this item, 6 days to 3 weeks against its 3 days: it is the bottom of its own cluster.

• Apple juice, fresh squeezedkeeps 6 days in the fridge
• Yuzu, fruit, freshkeeps 5 days in the fridge
• Soy or rice beveragekeeps 7 days in the fridge once opened
• Orange juicekeeps 7 days in the fridge once openedcommercially packaged carton
• Juice, boxeskeeps 8 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

This is a common shape of record: 16 of the 466 products are rated in the same places, refrigerator after opening, and 8 of the nine slots are left blank on all of them. Sorted by how close their windows are to this one, the nearest are Jars or pouches, Fruit and Pudding, and the rest of that group is what the list below draws on. Of the 8 shown, 3 keep longer than this one. The longest-keeping of them is Retort pouches or boxes at 4 days.

• Jars or pouches2 days in the fridge once opened
• Fruit3 days in the fridge once opened
• Pudding2 days in the fridge once opened
• Retort pouches or boxes3 days in the fridge once opened
• Fruit, cut4 days in the fridge once opened
• Cream pies3 days in the fridge once opened
• Chiffon pies1 day in the fridge once opened
• Dinners2 days in the fridge once opened

The rest of the Beverages shelf

Every one of the other 21 products on the Beverages shelf keeps longer outside the freezer than this one, from Red wine at 5 years down to Carrot juice at 6 days. The closest of them by window are Apple juice, Carrot juice and Yuzu, and the gap between this product and the rest of its shelf is the thing worth noticing here. The order counts the longest window outside the freezer, so this item sits here at 3 days rather than at the 2 days in the fridge once opened its own answer prints.

• Apple juice6 days6 days in the fridge
• Carrot juice6 days6 days in the fridge
• Yuzu7 days5 days in the fridge
• Soy or rice beverage10 days7 days in the fridge once opened
• Orange juice10 days7 days in the fridge once opened
• Juice12 days8 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 3 days, the Beverages aisle gives 21 products that hold at least twice as long outside the freezer. The smallest step up is Apple juice at 6 days against this one's 3 days; after it come Carrot juice, Yuzu and Soy or rice beverage. They are printed below in the order the step gets bigger, not alphabetically. The largest step the category offers is Nutrition supplement drinks at 5 years. Twice as long is the cutoff used here, so a product a few days apart from this one is not treated as a step.

• Apple juice6 days6 days in the fridge
• Carrot juice6 days6 days in the fridge
• Yuzu7 days5 days in the fridge
• Soy or rice beverage10 days7 days in the fridge once opened
• Orange juice10 days7 days in the fridge once opened
• Juice12 days8 days in the fridge once opened
• Fruit Juice in cartons3 weeks8 days in the fridge once opened
• Apple cider3 weeks2 weeks in the fridge

The record this page is built from

This page is built from a single FoodKeeper row, record 407 — the source’s own number for it, not a position — one of the 661 rows in the snapshot. That row fills 1 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. Every figure here comes from one fixed snapshot, USDA FoodKeeper, retrieved 1 September 2026, and is not refreshed page by page.

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: bottle, bottles, can, cans, carbonated, carbonated cola, carbonated cola drinks, cola, cola drinks, diet, diet sodas, drink, drinks, mixer, mixers, Soda, sodas

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