BROCCOLI · IN THE FRIDGE
7–14 days
A week is safe, two is the good case. Broccoli is unusually sensitive to how cold your refrigerator actually is — UC Davis records at least a month at 0°C, about fourteen days at 5°C, and roughly five days at 10°C. Most home fridges land near that middle figure.
Yellowing is the signal that time has passed. It starts at the florets.
These are quality windows drawn from published UC Davis storage research — an estimate of how long produce stays good, not a safety date. If the package carries a printed use-by date, that date governs.
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By storage method
- In the refrigerator
- 7–14 days
- In the freezer
- 10 months
Near the end of the window?
Broccoli is one of the few vegetables that genuinely freezes well, and it wants blanching first — two or three minutes in boiling water, then cold water to stop it. Straight into the freezer raw and it turns to mush on the way back out.
SOURCES
- UC Davis: broccoli at least 1 month at 0°C, ~14 d at 5°C, ~5 d at 10°C; home fridge ~5°C gives ~14 d good case. Conservative home 7-14 d. Retail haircut 2 d.
- UC Davis Postharvest Technology Center, Fresh Produce Storage & Shelf-Life recommendations (postharvest.ucdavis.edu).
Ranges are as published. Treat the short end as your real window — grocery produce is already days past harvest, and a cooked dish starts its clock at the stove.
Looking up your groceries one at a time is a hobby. A bad one.
Savery scans your grocery receipt and tracks these windows for everything you bought at once. The spinach, the strawberries, the milk you forgot about — all on one shelf.