SPINACH · IN THE FRIDGE
5–7 days
Five days. UC Davis puts leafy greens at five to seven days at 0°C in high humidity, and notes they wilt fast at the warmer temperatures a home refrigerator actually runs. Spring mix, baby spinach and bagged salad all live in the same window.
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.
ALSO SOLD AS leafy greens · salad greens · spring mix · baby spinach · mesclun
By storage method
- In the refrigerator
- 5–7 days
- In the freezer
- 8 months
Near the end of the window?
Cook it. Spinach that is too limp for a salad is completely fine wilted into anything hot, and it collapses to a fraction of its volume — the half-bag that looked like a chore becomes two forkfuls in a pan. Spinach also freezes, which no other salad green really does.
The bag size is its own decision, and a bigger one than most people think: in defense of the smaller bag of salad.
SOURCES
- UC Davis: leafy greens 5-7 d at 0°C, high RH; wilt fast at warmer home fridge temp. Retail haircut 1 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.