How long doesFruit, cutlast in the fridge once opened?
Why the freezer is not an option here
The USDA marks the freezer as not recommended for this item, so the whole answer is a single field: 4 days in the refrigerator after opening. The source prints that verdict without a reason, and a reason we made up would be ours rather than theirs. It is not a warning: food held at 0 °F stays safe, so a not-recommended is a verdict on what would come out of the freezer.
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.
- In the freezernot recommended
- In the fridgePackage use-by date
- Once opened · in the fridge4 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 fridge it answers with the package date rather than a number, and the use-by date printed on that particular package is the figure to go by.
Turning the range into a date
Two clocks run on this item: one from the day it went into storage and one from the day the seal broke. Both are listed below, 1 row in all.
- Once opened · in the fridgeUse by4 days after the day you opened it
Is this window about safety or about taste?
The answer at the top of this page reads 4 days in the fridge once opened. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Fruit, cut is cut and ready to eat. Past it, throw it out rather than taste it: a perishable food can carry enough bacteria to make you ill while it still looks and smells fine.
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 Fruit, cut past its 4 days in the fridge once opened window, or the container sat out on the counter overnight. Throw the container out without tasting it, and count any hours it already spent out of the refrigerator as part of that window rather than on top of it.
The USDA's limit for perishable food standing at room temperature is 2 hours, or 1 hour when the kitchen is above 90 °F, and that clock runs whatever the storage figure 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?
13 items in the Deli & Prepared Foods list keep exactly as long as this item, 4 days, so they all share place 12 of 25 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 16% of them.
Items that behave the same way
All 4 of the 6 items nearest this item keep exactly as long as it does, 4 days, 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: 16 of the 466 products are rated in the same places, refrigerator after opening, 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 Retort pouches or boxes, Cream pies and Jars or pouches, 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 Retort pouches or boxes at 4 days.
- Retort pouches or boxes3 days in the fridge once opened
- Cream pies3 days in the fridge once opened
- Jars or pouches2 days in the fridge once opened
- Fruit3 days in the fridge once opened
- Soda2 days in the fridge once opened
- Pudding2 days in the fridge once opened
- Chiffon pies1 day in the fridge once opened
- Dinners2 days in the fridge once opened
The rest of the Deli & Prepared Foods shelf
The USDA puts this product on the Deli & Prepared Foods shelf together with 24 others, and 11 of them keep longer outside the freezer. The shelf runs from Olives at 18 months down to Pate at 2 days. Nearest this product by window are Poultry pieces, Leftovers and Guacamole, which is the order the list below is printed in. Across the whole of Deli & Prepared Foods the same product ranks 12 of 25. The middle of the shelf is Leftovers, at 4 days. The freezer is left out of the order on purpose: it flattens almost everything it touches.
- Poultry pieces4 days3 days in the fridge
- Leftovers4 days3 days in the fridge
- Guacamole4 days3 days in the fridge
- Main dishes or meals4 days3 days sealed in the fridge
- Meats4 days3 days in the fridge
- Egg salad4 days3 days in the fridge
- Soup4 days3 days in the fridge
- Casseroles4 days3 days in the fridge
If it has to keep longer than this
If it has to keep longer than 4 days, the Deli & Prepared Foods aisle gives 6 products that hold at least twice as long outside the freezer. The smallest step up is Commercial brand vacuum-packed dinners at 2 weeks against this one's 4 days; after it come Luncheon meat or poultry, Salami and Canadian bacon. 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, Pate among them.
- Commercial brand vacuum-packed dinners2 weeks2 weeks sealed in the fridge
- Luncheon meat or poultry2 weeks3 days in the fridge once opened
- Salami2 weeks3 days in the fridge once opened
- Canadian bacon80 days10 days in the fridge
- Hummus3 months7 days in the fridge once opened
- Olives18 months2 weeks in the fridge once opened
The record this page is built from
This page is built from a single FoodKeeper row, record 179 — 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 marked not recommended, which is an answer rather than a gap. 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: cut, Fruit
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