How long doCranberrieslast in the fridge?
The freezer helps less here than you would expect
The freezer buys less here than its reputation suggests: 6 times what the sealed fridge gives, 2 months against 12 months, both still measured in months. For this item freezing is an extension rather than a different way of keeping 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. The source also indexes it as cranberry.
- In the freezer12 months
- Unopened · in the fridge2 months
Turning the range into a date
Counting 2 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 by12 months after the day you stored it
- Unopened · in the fridgeUse by2 months after the day you bought it
Is this window about safety or about taste?
The answer at the top of this page reads 2 months in the fridge. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Cranberries 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 Cranberries past its 2 months 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 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?
4 items in the Produce list keep exactly as long as this item, 2 months, so they all share place 8 of 89 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 75% of them.
Items that behave the same way
All 3 of the 6 items nearest this item keep exactly as long as it does, 2 months, so the ranking around it is a tie rather than an order.
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 Blueberries. They are listed below with their own answers, closest first, which is why this list differs from the one on their pages. Of the ones shown, none keeps longer than this one does. The longest-keeping of them is Whipped topping at 2 weeks.
- Whipped topping2 weeks sealed in the fridgetub
- Yogurt1 week sealed in the fridge
- Blueberries1 week sealed in the fridge
- Kohlrabi1 week sealed in the fridge
- Hot peppers1 week sealed in the fridge
- Main dishes or meals3 days sealed in the fridge
- Strawberries2 days sealed in the fridge
- Raspberries2 days sealed in the fridge
The rest of the Fresh Fruits shelf
The USDA puts this product on the Fresh Fruits shelf together with 29 others, and 3 of them keep longer outside the freezer. The shelf runs from Coconut at 1 year down to Cherries at 3 days. Nearest this product by window are Apples, Pomegranate and Citrus fruit, which is the order the list below is printed in. Across the whole of Produce the same product ranks 8 of 89. The middle of the shelf is Papaya, at 1 week. The shelf is the source's own subcategory, Fresh Fruits inside Produce.
- Apples6 weeks4 weeks sealed in the fridge
- Pomegranate3 months1 month sealed in the fridge
- Citrus fruit21 days10 days sealed in the pantry
- Coconuts3 weeks2 weeks sealed in the fridge
- Kumquats3 weeks3 weeks in the fridge
- Pitaya/dragon fruit3 weeks2 days in the pantry
- Cantaloupe15 days5 days sealed in the fridge
- Blueberries2 weeks1 week sealed in the fridge
If it has to keep longer than this
If it has to keep longer than 2 months, the Produce aisle gives 6 products that hold at least twice as long outside the freezer. The smallest step up is Jicama at 4 months against this one's 2 months; after it come Pumpkins, Tamarind and Dates. They are printed below in the order the step gets bigger, not alphabetically. In the other direction, 77 entries in the category keep half as long or less, Baby carrots and Citrus fruit among them. The largest step the category offers is Coconut at 1 year.
- Jicama4 months4 months sealed in the pantry
- Pumpkins5 months3 months sealed in the fridge
- Tamarind6 months6 months sealed in the fridge
- Dates12 months12 months sealed in the fridge
- Kimchi12 months6 months sealed in the fridge
- Coconut1 year8 months in the fridge once opened
The record this page is built from
This page is built from a single FoodKeeper row, record 259 — 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 same record answers to cranberry in the source's own index. It is filed under Fresh Fruits inside Produce, 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: cranberry
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