FoodKeeper

USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service OCIO

About this app

The FoodKeeper can help consumers use food while at peak quality and reduce waste. The storage times listed are intended as useful guidelines and are not hard-and-fast rules. Some foods may deteriorate more quickly while others may last longer than the times suggested. The times will vary depending on the growing conditions, harvesting techniques, manufacturing processes, transportation and distribution conditions, nature of the food, and storage temperatures. Remember to buy foods in reasonable quantities and rotate the products in your pantry, refrigerator, and freezer.

Every year, billions of pounds of good food go to waste in the U.S. because consumers are not sure of its quality or safety. Food waste from households represents about 44% of all food waste generated in the U.S. By reducing food waste through buying appropriate quantities, storing foods properly, cooking what is needed and composting, consumers can save money and reduce the amount of food going to landfills.

Ratings and reviews

Notifications about recalls don't show full product description details, making them fairly useless and almost all of what shows in notifications is not on the recalls page. The "filter by date" function only allows you to view an entire month at a time (e.g., February 2019) and for some reason, defaults to 2006. I could forgive that quirk if it actually worked, tho. For example, just now I had notifs for 4 recalls, none are on recalls page so I guess I just have to check the FDA site. Pointless.

It is a great app that is very informative and could potentially save lives with its recall notices. However, it has an issue showing the latest recalls even when it notifies me about a new one. I am signed up for emails as well and there was a recall issued on 11/11, but the recall calendar in the app won't go past 11/10 for some reason. Until this morning it wouldn't go past 10/16, but they did fix that at least. If they got the recall calendar to update continuously, the app would be perfect.

Bug fix needed! App started wigging out. I use it for the recall notifications. After weeks of no recall notifications, in one day I got 70+ recalls all at once. Cleared them, and the next day the same 70+ came back. Also, it's set to English, but I'm getting Spanish recalls as well. Going to try uninstalling and reinstalling. Fingers crossed or it's useless as is. ☹