# Expired Orange Juice?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expired-orange-juice/180033>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 6, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expired-orange-juice/180033 "2003-06-06T07:51:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Devron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ec9cab/32.png) [@Devron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Devron)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expired-orange-juice/180033/1 "2003-06-06T07:51:54Z")

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Can you drink OJ a day after the expereration date…yeah…i did. When does orange juice go totally nasty?

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expired-orange-juice/180033/2 "2003-06-06T08:05:25Z")

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I had some recently that I later discovered was 7 days past expiry. It had been refrigerated of course. Admittedly I guzzled it straight from the bottle but it seemed OK to me. I suffered no ill effects.

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**Author:** ![something\_clever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@something\_clever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/something_clever)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expired-orange-juice/180033/3 "2003-06-06T09:56:47Z")

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if you see little green stuff floating around in the carton… i think its safe to say its bad.

although this is comparing apples to oranges (HA HAAA…) i once forgot about a container of apple juice in the back of the fridge… god only knows how old it was, but it was completely full of greenish black mold… ughh it made me wanna throw up, thank god it was sealed tightly… i can only imagine how bad that would have been to drink.