How long doBerrieslast?
- Blackberries, boysenberries, currant3 days to 6 days
- Cherries, goose berries, lychee7 days
The USDA rates 2 kinds of this separately
The USDA files 2 separate entries under this name — cherries, goose berries, lychee and blackberries, boysenberries, currant — and they do not keep for the same time: Berries, blackberries, boysenberries, currant holds 3 days to 6 days outside the freezer, Berries, cherries, goose berries, lychee holds 7 days.
The shortest of these, Berries, blackberries, boysenberries, currant at 6 days, is a quality window, and past it the food is judged by look and smell.
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. The source also indexes it as berry, cherries, cherry and goose berry.
Berries, cherries, goose berries, lychee
- In the freezer12 months
- Unopened · in the fridge7 days
Berries, blackberries, boysenberries, currant
- In the freezer12 months
- Unopened · in the fridge3 days to 6 days
Turning the range into a date
Each kind gets its own dated rows here, 4 rows across the 2 the USDA lists under this name, because a date is only worth printing against the window it belongs to.
Berries, cherries, goose berries, lychee
- In the freezerUse by12 months after the day you stored it
- Unopened · in the fridgeUse by7 days after the day you bought it
Berries, blackberries, boysenberries, currant
- In the freezerUse by12 months after the day you stored it
- Unopened · in the fridgeUse by3 days to 6 days after the day you bought it
It is past the date. Now what?
Say the shortest window under this name — Berries, blackberries, boysenberries, currant at 3 days to 6 days in the fridge — has run out. 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.
What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Berries, blackberries, boysenberries, currant is raw and whole. 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
Berries carries no single window to compare — its 2 kinds each keep their own — so these 6 are simply what the USDA rates on the same shelf, shortest first: Corn on the cob at 2 days through Avocados at 4 days.
Products the USDA rates in the same places
10 other products are rated in exactly these places — freezer and refrigerator 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 Whipped topping, Yogurt and Main dishes or meals. They are listed below with their own answers, closest first, which is why this list differs from the one on their pages. The longest-keeping of them is Cranberries at 2 months. Counted more loosely, by which of the three places are rated at all, 132 products match this one.
- Whipped topping2 weeks sealed in the fridgetub
- Yogurt1 week sealed in the fridge
- Main dishes or meals3 days sealed in the fridge
- Blueberries1 week sealed in the fridge
- Cranberries2 months sealed in the fridge
- Strawberries2 days sealed in the fridge
- Raspberries2 days sealed in the fridge
- Cherries2 days sealed in the fridge
The record this page is built from
The USDA publishes 2 separate rows under this name — records 252 and 253 — and this page carries all of them rather than picking one, because their windows differ. Between them they fill 2 of the nine storage slots with a time. No one of the 2 is the kind the plain name means, so this page prints no single figure: the kinds are listed with their own windows and you pick yours. The same record answers to berry, cherries, cherry and goose berry in the source's own index.
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: berry, blackberries, blackberry, boysenberries, boysenberry, cherries, cherry, currant, goose berries, goose berry, gooseberries, lychee
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.