How long does Soy or rice beverage last in the fridge once opened?

Turning the range into a date

Soy or rice beverage keeps 7–10 days in the fridge once opened. 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 by7 days to 10 days after the day you opened it

A short window, and what shortens it further

This item is one of the short-lived entries in the data: 10 days outside the freezer, position 17 of 22 in the Beverages list. At that scale a day of delay is a large share of the whole window, which is why the figure is printed as a range rather than an average. On the same shelf it sits 17 of 22, between Juice, boxes at 12 days and Orange juice at 10 days.

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 fridge7 days to 10 days

Can you freeze soy or rice beverage?

The USDA prints no freezer time for soy or rice beverage. Frozen at 0 °F any food stays safe; whether it is 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 soy or rice beverage has gone bad

Go by the date first: soy or rice beverage keeps 7–10 days in the fridge once opened. Unexpected fizzing, cloudiness, floating strands or a sour smell mean it goes out. Once opened, keep it in the fridge at 40 °F or below.

Sources: USDA FSIS: the danger zone USDA FSIS: freezing and food safety 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 7 days to 10 days in the fridge once opened. Nothing here names the food: neither Soy or rice beverage 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.

It is past the date. Now what?

Say the calculator above puts Soy or rice beverage 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. 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

The 6 items below are the closest match to this item by storage behavior, running 3 days to 12 days and bracketing its 10 days.

• Orange juicekeeps exactly as long
• Juice, boxeskeeps 8–12 days in the fridge once opened
• Yuzu, fruit, freshkeeps 5–7 days in the fridge
• Apple juice, fresh squeezedkeeps 6 days in the fridge
• Carrot juice, fresh squeezedkeeps 6 days in the fridge
• Soda, carbonated cola drinks, mixers, diet sodas; bottles or canskeeps 2–3 days in the fridge once opened

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.

USDA index terms: beverage, rice, rice beverage, Soy

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.