Here's another should you refrigerate question... Should you refrigerate maraschino cherries?

Question

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Answer 1

Although the maraschino cherry can be kept on the shelf after poening the shelf life will be longer if kept refrigerated. I want on line and read about this delicious thing and learned a lot.
Before Opening- 3-4 Years (if vacuum seal is intact). After Opening- 6-12 Months (if kept under 40F refrigeration).
The great-great-great-great-great grandmother of today's maraschino cherries was the marasca, a small, sour, black cherry that grew wild in Dalmatia, on the coast of present-day Croatia.
Members of the country's growing temperance movement weren't too hot on a hooch-soaked cherry -- especially when it started landing atop kids' ice-cream sundaes -- but manufacturers were using all sorts of things other than alcohol to make maraschinos, long before Prohibition passed. (So many cherries were being made with everything but the traditional maraschino liqueur, in fact, that in 1912, the Food and Drug Administration felt the need to decree just what could be called a maraschino cherry.)

Answer 2

Okay, since Jen the girl who worked in a bar says yes , then it must be true b/c she works in a situation where you go through them quickly and if a place that uses something that quickly still takes the effort to refrigerate, you should, too, since yours will be around longer.

Answer 3

No need at all. The cherries are PRESERVED in Maraschino wine and will keep almost indefinitely.

Answer 4

i've worked at a bar for 5 1/2 years and we obviously go through lots of cherries and we always refridgerate them after opening!

Answer 5

I do and my mom always has. It usually says on the container or a label if refrigeration is necessary.

Answer 6

Yes, after they are opened, because the sugar content in them makes them highly susceptible to developing mold when they get warm.

Answer 7

any food that comes in an air tight jar must be put in the fridge after it is opened...and most of the time it will tell you that on the jar

Answer 8

Well you can it'll make it last a bit longer. But you really don't have to.

Answer 9

after you open then you need to refrigerate

Answer 10

Yes, once you open the jar...