How long does Fresh yuzu last in the fridge?
Turning the range into a date
Fresh yuzu keeps 5–7 days in the fridge. One row, one deadline: 7 days in the refrigerator, counted from the day it went in rather than the day it was made.
- In the fridgeUse by5 days to 7 days after the day you stored it
A short window, and what shortens it further
This item is one of the short-lived entries in the data: 7 days outside the freezer, position 19 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 19 of 22, between Orange juice at 10 days and Apple juice, fresh squeezed at 6 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. It adds notes for other methods without giving them a time. The freezer slot is not blank either: the source answers it in words, below.
- In the freezerIndefinitely
- In the fridge5 days to 7 days
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 freezer it answers Indefinitely, so kept that way the food does not run out of time, though it can still lose quality.
What the USDA adds in words
The USDA attaches 2 handling notes to this item, reproduced below word for word. None of them is a storage time: they qualify the figures above rather than replacing them. 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 freezer. For long term storage of leftovers, freeze the juice and zest.
In the refrigerator. Store fresh yuzu wrapped in plastic in your refrigerator.
Can you freeze fresh yuzu?
The USDA prints no freezer time for fresh yuzu. 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 fresh yuzu has gone bad
Go by the date first: fresh yuzu keeps 5–7 days in the fridge. 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. Keep the fridge at 40 °F or below and the freezer at 0 °F.
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 5 days to 7 days in the fridge. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Yuzu, fruit, fresh 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 Yuzu, fruit, fresh past its 5 days to 7 days in the fridge 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 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 7 days.
- Apple juice, fresh squeezedkeeps 6 days in the fridge
- Carrot juice, fresh squeezedkeeps 6 days in the fridge
- Soy or rice beveragekeeps 7–10 days in the fridge once opened
- Orange juicekeeps 7–10 days in the fridge once openedcommercially packaged carton
- Soda, carbonated cola drinks, mixers, diet sodas; bottles or canskeeps 2–3 days in the fridge once opened
- Juice, boxeskeeps 8–12 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: yuzu, yuzu fruit
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.