How long does Zucchini last in the fridge?
Turning the range into a date
Zucchini keeps 1 week in the fridge. The window here is 1 week, short enough that the day it went in is worth writing down.
- In the freezerUse by10 months after the day you stored it
- In the fridgeUse by1 week after the day you stored it
The methods the USDA actually rates for this item
The USDA rates only 2 of its nine storage methods for this item, and the freezer and refrigerator are what it rates. The other 7 slots are blank, and a blank is not a zero: it means no published figure, not that the method fails. Fresh and whole are the same food in the source list.
Every storage figure the USDA publishes for this item
The USDA rates this item cold or frozen and never at room temperature: no pantry figure exists for it, as for 222 of the 466 foods in the data that get no pantry time at all. Within Produce it is filed under Fresh Vegetables.
- In the freezer10 months
- In the fridge1 week
Can you freeze zucchini?
Yes. The USDA gives zucchini 10 months in the freezer, and held at 0 °F food stays safe beyond that: the figure is about quality. Most produce goes soft when thawed, so frozen it suits cooking, smoothies and sauces rather than eating raw.
How to tell if zucchini has gone bad
Go by the date first: zucchini keeps 1 week in the fridge. Mold, slime, a sour smell or soft dark spots mean it goes out; firm produce can be saved by cutting 1 inch around a small moldy spot, soft produce cannot. Refrigerate cut or peeled produce within 2 hours.
Sources: USDA FSIS: the danger zone USDA FSIS: freezing and food safety USDA FSIS: molds on food 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 1 week in the fridge. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Zucchini, fresh, whole is raw and whole. 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 Zucchini, fresh, whole past its 1 week in the fridge 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 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
All 6 of the 6 items nearest this item keep exactly as long as it does, 1 week, so the ranking around it is a tie rather than an order.
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: fresh, whole, Zucchini
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