How long doesYuzulast in the fridge?

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.

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.

Turning the range into a date

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

Is this window about safety or about taste?

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, 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 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 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?

Among the 22 items the USDA files under Beverages, this item ranks 19 by how long it keeps outside the freezer. Orange juice holds 10 days, Apple juice, fresh squeezed holds 6 days. Among the 340 foods the USDA also gives a refrigerator figure, it keeps longer than 39% of them.

Items that behave the same way

The 6 items below are the closest match to this item by storage behavior, running 3 days to 3 weeks and bracketing its 7 days.

• Apple juice, fresh squeezedkeeps 6 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
• Soda, carbonated cola drinks, mixers, diet sodas; bottles or canskeeps 2 days in the fridge once opened
• 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: 22 of the 466 products are rated in the same places, refrigerator, 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 Celery root, Arugula and Kiwi fruit, and the rest of that group is what the list below draws on. Of the ones shown, none keeps longer than this one does. The longest-keeping of them is Celery root at 1 week.

• Celery root1 week in the fridge
• Arugula3 days in the fridge
• Kiwi fruit3 days in the fridge
• Potato salad3 days in the fridge
• Apricots2 days in the fridge
• Pasta salad3 days in the fridge
• Coleslaw3 days in the fridge
• Egg salad3 days in the fridge

The rest of the Beverages shelf

The USDA puts this product on the Beverages shelf together with 21 others, and 18 of them keep longer outside the freezer. The shelf runs from Red wine at 5 years down to Soda at 3 days. Nearest this product by window are Apple juice, Carrot juice and Soy or rice beverage, which is the order the list below is printed in. The order counts the longest window outside the freezer, so this item sits here at 7 days rather than at the 5 days in the fridge its own answer prints.

• Apple juice6 days6 days in the fridge
• Carrot juice6 days6 days in the fridge
• Soy or rice beverage10 days7 days in the fridge once opened
• Orange juice10 days7 days in the fridge once opened
• Soda3 days2 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 7 days, the Beverages aisle gives 15 products that hold at least twice as long outside the freezer. The smallest step up is Fruit Juice in cartons at 3 weeks against this one's 7 days; after it come Apple cider, Cream liquors and Coconut water. They are printed below in the order the step gets bigger, not alphabetically. In the other direction, 1 entry in the category keeps half as long or less, Soda among them. The largest step the category offers is Nutrition supplement drinks at 5 years.

• Fruit Juice in cartons3 weeks8 days in the fridge once opened
• Apple cider3 weeks2 weeks in the fridge
• Cream liquors8 months6 months in the pantry
• Coconut water12 months1 day in the fridge once opened
• Yuzu juice12 months3 months in the fridge once opened
• Nectar18 months12 months sealed in the pantry
• Lime juice18 months2 months in the fridge once opened
• Lemon juice18 months2 months in the fridge once opened

The record this page is built from

This page is built from a single FoodKeeper row, record 664 — 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. 1 slot is answered in words instead of days, and printed as the source wrote it.

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: yuzu, yuzu fruit

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