How long doesCoconut flourlast in the fridge?
The freezer changes nothing here
The USDA gives this item the same window either way: 12 months in the refrigerator and 12 months in the freezer. Freezing is not a mistake here, it simply buys nothing, and the refrigerator is the cheaper place to keep it.
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 Baked Goods it is filed under Baking and Cooking.
- In the freezer9 months to 12 months
- In the fridge9 months to 12 months
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 refrigerator. Store in an airtight container.
Turning the range into a date
Counting 12 months forward from a date is not arithmetic anyone does reliably in their head. Give the field the day it went into storage.
- In the freezerUse by9 months to 12 months after the day you stored it
- In the fridgeUse by9 months to 12 months after the day you stored it
Is this window about safety or about taste?
The answer at the top of this page reads 9 months to 12 months in the fridge. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Coconut flour 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.
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 Coconut flour past its 9 months to 12 months in the fridge window. Past that the calendar stops deciding and the food itself does. Mold takes the whole package out rather than the slice it grew on, and so does a musty or old-oil smell in a flour or a mix.
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?
9 items in the Baked Goods list keep exactly as long as this item, 12 months, so they all share place 25 of 52 rather than being put in an order the data does not support. Among the 340 foods the USDA also gives a refrigerator figure, it keeps longer than 92% of them.
Items that behave the same way
All 6 of the 6 items nearest this item keep exactly as long as it does, 12 months, so the ranking around it is a tie rather than an order.
Products the USDA rates in the same places
This is a common shape of record: 33 of the 466 products are rated in the same places, freezer and refrigerator, and 7 of the nine slots are left blank on all of them. Sorted by how close their windows are to this one, the nearest are Bacon grease, Prosciutto and Frying oil, 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 Bacon grease at 6 months.
- Bacon grease6 months in the fridge
- Prosciutto2 months in the fridge
- Frying oil1 month in the fridge
- Cheese Curds2 weeks in the fridge
- Pineapple5 days in the fridge
- Zucchini1 week in the fridge
- Cooked rice4 days in the fridge
- Apple juice6 days in the fridge
The rest of the Baking and Cooking shelf
The USDA puts this product on the Baking and Cooking shelf together with 34 others, and 23 of them keep longer outside the freezer. The shelf runs from Baking soda at 3 years down to Herbs at 10 days. Nearest this product by window are Flour, Frosting or icing and Gelatin, 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 12 months rather than at the 9 months in the fridge its own answer prints.
- Flour12 months6 months in the pantry once opened
- Frosting or icing12 months2 weeks in the fridge once opened
- Gelatin12 months3 months in the pantry once opened
- Oils12 months3 months in the pantry once opened
- Nut oils12 months6 months in the fridge once opened
- Tamarind paste12 months6 months in the pantry once opened
- Tapiocas12 months12 months in the pantry once opened
- Cocoa and cocoa mixes1 year1 year in the pantry once opened
If it has to keep longer than this
If it has to keep longer than 12 months, the Baked Goods aisle gives 19 products that hold at least twice as long outside the freezer. The smallest step up is Cornstarch at 24 months against this one's 12 months; after it come Sugar, Chocolate and Cornmeal. They are printed below in the order the step gets bigger, not alphabetically. In the other direction, 18 entries in the category keep half as long or less, Flavored or herb mixes and Cookies among them. The largest step the category offers is Spice/spices at 3 years.
- Cornstarch24 months18 months in the pantry once opened
- Sugar24 months18 months in the pantry once opened
- Chocolate2 years1 year in the pantry once opened
- Cornmeal2 years6 months sealed in the pantry
- Vegetable oil sprays2 years1 year in the pantry once opened
- Shortening2 years6 months in the pantry once opened
- Chili powder2 years2 years in the pantry once opened
- Seasoning blends2 years1 year in the pantry once opened
The record this page is built from
This page is built from a single FoodKeeper row, record 654 — the source’s own number for it, not a position — one of the 661 rows in the snapshot. That row fills 2 of the nine storage slots with a time, and the binding figure on it is printed by the source in months, which is the unit this page keeps rather than converting it to days. The record carries 1 handling note, quoted on this page word for word. It is filed under Baking and Cooking inside Baked Goods, which is where every shelf comparison on this page comes from.
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: coconut, flour
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