How long doesPomegranatelast in the fridge?
How vague the source is about this one
The source is unusually unsure about this one. Its widest range, the refrigerator from the day of purchase, runs from 1 month to 3 months, a factor of three between the cautious end and the optimistic one, on a figure most people read as a single number.
Every storage figure the USDA publishes for this item
All three places the USDA recognizes are rated here — pantry, refrigerator and freezer — which only 65 of the 466 foods in the data manage. Within Produce it is filed under Fresh Fruits.
- In the freezer10 months to 12 months
- Unopened · in the pantry2 days to 5 days
- Unopened · in the fridge1 month to 3 months
Turning the range into a date
Counting 3 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 by10 months to 12 months after the day you stored it
- Unopened · in the pantryUse by2 days to 5 days after the day you bought it
- Unopened · in the fridgeUse by1 month to 3 months after the day you bought it
Is this window about safety or about taste?
The answer at the top of this page reads 1 month to 3 months in the fridge. What decides that is the food and not the shelf the source files it on: Pomegranate is raw and whole. 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 Pomegranate past its 1 month to 3 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.
Two places, and one of them is the wrong one
The USDA rates two places for Pomegranate in one state and they disagree: 1 month to 3 months in the fridge against 2 days to 5 days in the pantry. This page answers with the refrigerator, the longer of the two. Both figures are the USDA's own, so this is a choice of where to put the food rather than a disagreement about how long it keeps.
Is that a long time?
Among the 89 items the USDA files under Produce, this item ranks 7 by how long it keeps outside the freezer. Jicama, fresh holds 4 months, Cranberries holds 2 months. Among the 340 foods the USDA also gives a refrigerator figure, it keeps longer than 77% of them.
Items that behave the same way
The 6 items below are the closest match to this item by storage behavior, running 6 weeks to 4 months and bracketing its 3 months.
Products the USDA rates in the same places
10 other products are rated in exactly these places — freezer, pantry from the day of purchase 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 Apples, Baby carrots and Cantaloupe. They are listed below with their own answers, closest first, which is why this list differs from the one on their pages. Of the 8 shown, 1 keeps longer than this one. The longest-keeping of them is Tamarind at 6 months.
- Apples4 weeks sealed in the fridge
- Baby carrots4 weeks sealed in the fridge
- Cantaloupe5 days sealed in the fridge
- Grapes1 week sealed in the fridge
- Papaya1 week sealed in the fridge
- Honeydew2 days sealed in the pantry
- Watermelon3 days sealed in the fridge
- Tamarind6 months 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 2 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 Cranberries, Apples and Citrus fruit, 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 3 months rather than at the 1 month sealed in the fridge its own answer prints.
- Cranberries2 months2 months sealed in the fridge
- Apples6 weeks4 weeks 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 3 months, Produce offers 4 products that hold at least twice as long outside the freezer. The nearest step up is Tamarind at 6 months against this one's 3 months, and the rest are Dates, Kimchi and Coconut. A short list like this one is itself the finding: the category has few longer options. In the other direction, 78 entries in the category keep half as long or less, Apples and Baby carrots among them. The largest step the category offers is Coconut at 1 year.
- 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 269 — the source’s own number for it, not a position — one of the 661 rows in the snapshot. That row fills 3 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. 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.
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