How long do Tomatoes last in the freezer?
Turning the range into a date
Tomatoes keep 2 months in the freezer. One row, one deadline: unknown in the freezer from the day of purchase, counted from the day it went in rather than the day it was made.
- In the freezerUse by2 months after the day you bought it
Every storage figure the USDA publishes for this item
The freezer is the only method the USDA gives this item a time for, which it does for 15 of 466 foods. Those are the slots with a number in them. The pantry slot is not blank either: the source answers it in words rather than in days, and that answer is set out below.
- In the freezer2 months
- In the pantryUntil ripe
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 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.
In the pantry. Until Ripe, then 7 days. Ripe is when this item is tender, fully developed and ready to eat. Refrigeration may affect flavor; USDA recommends pantry storage.
Is it still safe to eat, or just past its best?
The answer at the top of this page reads 2 months in the freezer. The USDA rating this place at all is the USDA saying Tomatoes keeps there, so the figure rates how good it will be. 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 Tomatoes past its 2 months in the freezer 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.
Items that behave the same way
The USDA gives this item no window of its own to compare, so these 6 are simply what it does rate on the same shelf, shortest first: Corn on the cob at 2 days through Parsley, fresh at 3 days.
Products the USDA rates in the same places
12 other products are rated in exactly these places — freezer from the day of purchase — out of the 466 in the file, so this is an uncommon shape of record. The nearest of them by keeping time are Turducken, Surimi seafood and Ready-to-bake pie crust. They are listed below with their own answers, closest first, which is why this list differs from the one on their pages. Counted more loosely, by which of the three places are rated at all, 15 products match this one.
- Turducken9 months in the freezer
- Surimi seafood9 months in the freezer
- Ready-to-bake pie crust2 months in the freezer
- Cookie dough2 months in the freezer
- Frozen potato products12 months in the freezer
- Fruits10 months in the freezer
- Ice cream6 months in the freezer
- Ice pops9 months in the freezer
The record this page is built from
This page is built from a single FoodKeeper row, record 306 — 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 it gives this item no storage time at all: what the source answers here it answers in words, above. 1 slot is answered in words instead of days, and printed as the source wrote it. The record carries 1 handling note, quoted on this page word for word.
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.
USDA index terms: tomato
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