How long doesYuzu juicelast in the fridge once opened?

Freezing changes the unit, not just the number

Freezing moves this item onto a different calendar. 12 months in the sealed fridge becomes 2 years in the freezer, 2 times longer, and the point at which you stop counting in months and start counting in years.

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.

• In the freezer1 year to 2 years
• Unopened · in the pantry4 months to 6 months
• Unopened · in the fridge9 months to 12 months
• Once opened · in the fridge3 months to 4 months

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, 4 rows in all.

• In the freezerUse by1 year to 2 years after the day you stored it
• Unopened · in the pantryUse by4 months to 6 months after the day you bought it
• Unopened · in the fridgeUse by9 months to 12 months after the day you bought it
• Once opened · in the fridgeUse by3 months to 4 months after the day you opened it

Is this window about safety or about taste?

The answer at the top of this page reads 3 months to 4 months in the fridge once opened. Nothing here names the food: neither Yuzu juice 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 figures in the freezer and in the pantry here are 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. 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 Yuzu juice past its 3 months to 4 months 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. Freezing stops the clock but does not turn it back: food already past its window is not rescued by putting it in the freezer. 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 Yuzu juice in one state and they disagree: 9 months to 12 months in the fridge against 4 months to 6 months in the pantry. Of the two, the refrigerator is the longer. 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?

2 items in the Beverages list keep exactly as long as this item, 12 months, so they all share place 11 of 22 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

The 6 items below are the closest match to this item by storage behavior, running 8 months to 18 months and bracketing its 12 months.

• Coconut waterkeeps exactly as long
• Cream liquors, unopenedkeeps 6 months in the pantry
• Nectar, papaya, mango, guava, or guavabanakeeps 12 months sealed in the pantry
• Lime juicekeeps 2 months in the fridge once openedup to 18 months sealed in the pantry
• Lemon juicekeeps 2 months in the fridge once openedup to 18 months sealed in the pantry
• Vegetable juicekeeps 18 months sealed in the pantryshelf-stable

Products the USDA rates in the same places

No other product in the file is rated in exactly this set of places: freezer, pantry from the day of purchase, refrigerator from the day of purchase and refrigerator after opening, and nothing else. That makes the shape of this record unique among the 466 products here, so the closest comparisons available are the entries that share most of it — Lemon juice, Coffee and Coconut water. Their windows are printed beside them below, and none of them is rated in quite the same way.

Nothing carries this exact set of places, so these share most of it.

• Lemon juice2 months in the fridge once openedup to 18 months sealed in the pantry
• Coffee1 month in the fridge once openedcommercial ground, non-vacuum · up to 2 years sealed in the pantry
• Coconut water1 day in the fridge once openedup to 12 months sealed in the pantry
• Lime juice2 months in the fridge once openedup to 18 months sealed in the pantry
• Vegetable juice18 months sealed in the pantryshelf-stable
• Fruit Juice in cartons8 days in the fridge once openedup to 3 weeks sealed in the pantry
• Orange juice7 days in the fridge once openedcommercially packaged carton
• Nutrition supplement drinks2 days in the fridge once openedcanned · up to 5 years sealed in the pantry

The rest of the Beverages shelf

The USDA puts this product on the Beverages shelf together with 21 others, and 10 of them keep longer outside the freezer. The shelf runs from Red wine at 5 years down to Soda at 3 days. Nearest this product by window are Coconut water, Cream liquors and Nectar, which is the order the list below is printed in. Across the whole of Beverages the same product ranks 11 of 22. The middle of the shelf is Coconut water, at 12 months. 2 products on this shelf publish no window outside the freezer and stay out of the order.

• Coconut water12 months1 day in the fridge once opened
• Cream liquors8 months6 months in the pantry
• 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
• Fruit Juice in cartons3 weeks8 days in the fridge once opened
• Apple cider3 weeks2 weeks in the fridge

If it has to keep longer than this

If it has to keep longer than 12 months, the Beverages aisle gives 6 products that hold at least twice as long outside the freezer. The smallest step up is Diet powder mixes and drink mixes at 24 months against this one's 12 months; after it come White wine, Coffee and Tea. They are printed below in the order the step gets bigger, not alphabetically. In the other direction, 9 entries in the category keep half as long or less, Fruit Juice in cartons and Apple cider among them.

• Diet powder mixes and drink mixes24 months1 month in the pantry once opened
• White wine2 years1 day in the fridge once opened
• Coffee2 years1 month in the fridge once opened
• Tea36 months6 months in the pantry once opened
• Red wine5 years1 day in the fridge once opened
• Nutrition supplement drinks5 years2 days in the fridge once opened

The record this page is built from

This page is built from a single FoodKeeper row, record 663 — the source’s own number for it, not a position — one of the 661 rows in the snapshot. That row fills 4 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. Every figure here comes from one fixed snapshot, USDA FoodKeeper, retrieved 1 September 2026, and is not refreshed page by page.

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: juice, yuzu

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