How long doNutrition supplement drinkslast in the fridge once opened?

The USDA rates 2 kinds of this separately

The USDA files 2 separate entries under this name — canned and bottled — and gives every one of them the same window outside the freezer, 2 years to 5 years. They are separate rows in the source rather than separate answers to the question.

What opening the package actually costs

Opening the package is the decision that settles this page. Sealed, the item holds 5 years sealed in the pantry; once open it holds 2 days open in the fridge, the same food measured in days instead of years, a drop of 912 times.

Every storage figure the USDA publishes for this item

The USDA gives this item a pantry and a refrigerator figure and no freezer figure at all, the pattern behind 79 of the 466 foods in the data. The source also indexes it as canned, boost, ensure and bottled.

Nutrition supplement drinks, canned

• Unopened · in the pantry2 years to 5 years
• Once opened · in the fridge2 days

Nutrition supplement drinks, bottled

• In the pantryPackage use-by date

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 pantry 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

Each kind gets its own dated rows here, 2 rows across the 2 the USDA lists under this name, because a date is only worth printing against the window it belongs to.

Nutrition supplement drinks, canned

• Unopened · in the pantryUse by2 years to 5 years after the day you bought it
• Once opened · in the fridgeUse by2 days after the day you opened it

Is this window about safety or about taste?

The answer at the top of this page reads 2 days in the fridge once opened. Nothing here names the food: neither Nutrition supplement drinks, canned nor the heading it sits under says whether it spoils dangerously or keeps itself. Past it, take the shorter of the two answers: we would rather print that the record does not settle it than pick one for you.

The figure in the pantry here is a quality window. The same page carries windows of more than one kind, so which sentence applies depends on which row you are reading, not on the food. 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 Nutrition supplement drinks, canned past its 2 days in the fridge once opened window. If the food is moist, low in acid and ready to eat — a sauce, a drink, a filling — treat the date as a limit and throw it out untasted; otherwise look and smell, and out it goes if either is off.

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?

2 items in the Beverages list keep exactly as long as Nutrition supplement drinks, canned, 5 years, so they all share place 1 of 22 rather than being put in an order the data does not support. Nothing the USDA puts in the refrigerator keeps a shorter time, and 32 of those entries share this same figure.

Items that behave the same way

Every one of the 6 nearest items keeps the same or less, 18 months to 5 years against the 5 years of Nutrition supplement drinks, canned, which makes it the durable end of the cluster.

• Red winekeeps exactly as long
• Teakeeps 6 months in the pantry once openedbags · up to 36 months sealed in the pantry
• White winekeeps 1 day in the fridge once openedup to 2 years in the pantry
• Coffeekeeps 1 month in the fridge once openedcommercial ground, non-vacuum · up to 2 years sealed in the pantry
• Diet powder mixes and drink mixeskeeps 1 month in the pantry once openedup to 24 months sealed in the pantry
• Nectar, papaya, mango, guava, or guavabanakeeps 12 months sealed in the pantry

Products the USDA rates in the same places

This is a common shape of record: 27 of the 466 products are rated in the same places, pantry from the day of purchase and refrigerator after opening, 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 Meat products, Canned chicken and Gravy, and the rest of that group is what the list below draws on. Of the ones shown, none keeps longer than this one does.

• Meat products3 days in the fridge once openedup to 5 years sealed in the pantry
• Canned chicken3 days in the fridge once openedup to 5 years sealed in the pantry
• Gravy1 day in the fridge once openedup to 5 years sealed in the pantry
• Balsamic vinegar18 months in the fridge once openedup to 5 years sealed in the pantry
• Soy sauce or teriyaki sauce1 month in the fridge once openedup to 3 years sealed in the pantry
• Refried beans2 days in the fridge once openedup to 3 years sealed in the pantry
• Chocolate syrup6 months in the fridge once openedup to 2 years sealed in the pantry
• Thai red curry paste5 days in the fridge once openedup to 2 years sealed in the pantry

The rest of the Beverages shelf

Nothing else on the Beverages shelf keeps longer outside the freezer than this one. The other 21 products there run down from Red wine at 5 years to Soda at 3 days, and the ones nearest this product by window are Red wine, Tea and White wine. That makes this page the top of its own shelf rather than a middle entry. Across the whole of Beverages the same product ranks 1 of 22. The middle of the shelf is Yuzu juice, at 12 months. 2 products on this shelf publish no window outside the freezer and stay out of the order.

• Red wine5 years1 day in the fridge once opened
• Tea36 months6 months in the pantry once opened
• White wine2 years1 day in the fridge once opened
• Coffee2 years1 month in the fridge once opened
• Diet powder mixes and drink mixes24 months1 month in the pantry once opened
• Nectar18 months12 months sealed in the pantry
• Lime juice18 months2 months in the fridge once opened
• Lemon juice18 months2 months in the fridge once opened

If it has to keep longer than this

Nothing the USDA files under Beverages keeps at least twice as long as this one outside the freezer. It runs the other way: 19 entries in the category keep half as long or less, among them White wine, Coffee and Diet powder mixes and drink mixes. So the question this page answers is not what to buy instead, but what this product outlasts on the same shelf, and by how much. Twice as long is the cutoff used here, so a product a few days apart from this one is not treated as a step.

• White wine2 years1 day in the fridge once opened
• Coffee2 years1 month in the fridge once opened
• Diet powder mixes and drink mixes24 months1 month in the pantry once opened
• Nectar18 months12 months sealed in the pantry
• Lime juice18 months2 months in the fridge once opened
• Lemon juice18 months2 months in the fridge once opened
• Vegetable juice18 months18 months sealed in the pantry
• Coconut water12 months1 day in the fridge once opened

The record this page is built from

The USDA publishes 2 separate rows under this name — records 558 and 651 — 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. Comparisons and the place in the category are computed for Nutrition supplement drinks, canned, which is the kind the plain name means here, chosen kind by kind rather than by the order the source happens to list them in. 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: Boost, bottled, canned, drinks, Ensure, supplement

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