Seasonal Food Guide Reviews

I think SeasonalFoodGuide is a great idea but the way information is shown is cumbersome. It should have an overview calendar option where I can look at a month or several months and see what fruits or vegetables will be in season on a given month. Instead this is a long list of each item that I have to scroll and scroll to view in entirety.

It works so poorly. Every time you click a food item to see its seasonality it defaults to the full list when you navigate back to see other food items in your area. You have to renter your location and time of year every single time you click on anything. Their interface is garbage. Just google it to get the info you want, I already deleted this dumpster fire. Hopefully they fix it.

i really wanted to love SeasonalFoodGuide, and i think the concept is great. i love that you can click through an item to learn more about how to prepare, cook, and preserve it. it’s absolutely infuriating that there is no back button feature — once you click, purposely or not, on a produce item, you cannot just go back to your customized list. being able to customize your place and time is great — but why ask for my location if SeasonalFoodGuide isn’t going to even do it automatically? being reset to the “all” category every single time renders SeasonalFoodGuide essentially useless to me.

It’s almost perfect but selecting an item automatically selects it when backing out and then you have to delete it which takes you back and you have to select state and month again.

It would nice when you hit any produce you could see the Jan-Dec chart on both screens as well.

Keep trying, I know you will get it!

I really like the idea of SeasonalFoodGuide, it’s just too clunky to use. There is no way to save settings to my state or season, and there is no search function. This means scrolling through the whole list anytime I want to find something. To add insult to injury, halfway through the list SeasonalFoodGuide often erases the settings I put in manually, so I have to re-enter them and scroll through the whole list again. Also, none of the links for more info on the specific products seem to work.

I’ve been trying to eat more produce in season, and SeasonalFoodGuide seemed like the perfect guide.

Unfortunately, I can’t even scroll halfway down the page before it randomly selects produce or freezes to where I have to restart SeasonalFoodGuide . My iPhone is less than a year old and fully updated, so not sure what the issue is, but I’ll have to find a different app.

Could be better. It’s a great basic app, and despite a couple of design issues, it does its job well enough.

My suggestions would be to allow an ‘any region’ option, just as there is an ‘any month’ option, so that in season produce all over the US can be viewed at once (and so it stops defaulting to SoCal when you tap a fruit).
Next would be to have SeasonalFoodGuide recognize the difference between an actual tap and the long-hold ‘tap’ that’s used to stop speed scrolling. Just to make it a little easier to use and reduce frequency of mistaps.

I wish this was a native app since the list of foods can be extremely long and the inability to tap at the top to scroll to the top is annoying.

It would also be really nice to toggle a list view or to sort by fruits / vegetables (yes I know technically fruits are vegetables :)). SeasonalFoodGuide is extremely cumbersome to use when you want to make a shopping list of categories of food you want.

Search bar would also be nice since scrolling to find the food can be really annoying when you are at the market.

this a fantastic idea! but clicking on a food leads you to the website in the browser, rather then just presenting the information in SeasonalFoodGuide itself. theres not enough in SeasonalFoodGuide itself that justifies having it downloaded over bookmarking the website in your browser and going there instead. it also thinks my state is northern california when im a state over

It does the job of showing me what’s in season, but is super buggy and not totally useful if I’m trying to make a shopping list. I wish there was an app that allowed me to create a shopping list from seasonal foods only...

Love this concept but when I put in my criteria and hen click one of the results when I go back to the list my criteria have been erased and the list isn’t filtered anymore which is annoying. I wish there was a way to permanently set my location and a way to filter by fruits/vegetables/both.

SeasonalFoodGuide is useful and attractive, but it has a huge design flaw. By default, it shows me an alphabetized list of foods that are in season where I live. And for each food, I can click on a button that says “seasonality” to find out more about the food and when it is in season. So far, so good.

But when I click the left arrow in the upper left-hand corner of the screen to return to the alphabetized list of foods in season, I am always returned to the very top of the list. This is a big problem, because the list is always very long. For example, if I am reading about the seasonality of mushrooms and I then return to the main list of foods in season, I am returned to the top of that list – not to the entry on mushrooms, which I was reading, but to the entry on apples. And so I must scroll *a lot* to find my place in the list. You will have the same problem.

It’s a big, simple design flaw. If they fix it, this will be a four- or five-star app.

Really enjoy learning what’s around me that’s in season. So thank you for that! However SeasonalFoodGuide does not seem to work/ function properly on my phone. Nor does the text line up to where it should be.

I would continue working out the coding details.

I check SeasonalFoodGuide before grocery shopping and try to stick with food that is in season. The list can get pretty long, so I really wish it had a “back to top” button. It would make it scrolling much easier. Besides that, it’s a great app!!

I love the pictures, the info and that you can search by region, specific produce and time of year. Although, I would really like to have the option to only look at veggies or only at fruits rather than all at once.

I had some doubts but after perusing through SeasonalFoodGuide and looking at things this is pretty awesome. Easy to understand and super informational. Good job!

I love SeasonalFoodGuide so much, in recent years I’ve been trying my hardest to figure out how to be more sustainable. SeasonalFoodGuide has shown me so much about my area that I didn’t even know about. I can’t believe I’ve gone 17 years without knowing I could’ve been eating delicious Foods native to Texas which I’ve lived in my whole life. The only thing that I see is a problem is the design of the site, it makes me enter in my address and seasonal search engine after every time I go in to check the availability of a certain plant. it’s a hassle to put in the information after every Time I want to check if apples grow in May or March (example) it’s gotten to the point where I have to be very selective with what I want to check or else I know I want to just not use SeasonalFoodGuide (I get too lazy) I really hope the creators of SeasonalFoodGuide still pays attention to it because it is overall a really good idea and as The world begins to shift apps like these are very important to the future of our food chain. i’ll make sure to spread the word to my friends and family that I’ve been following along with my diet habits as of recently, but I do believe that SeasonalFoodGuide could benefit from marketing strategies, etc. :) that’s all for me I hope SeasonalFoodGuide continues to grow

My fiancée and I use SeasonalFoodGuide all the time for fun ideas. It has definitely helped us enjoy the local seasonal foods in our area. I highly recommend this amazing app!

Exactly what I was looking for!
If you ever want to add to the functionality, here’s some suggestions:

Allow to filter by nutrients - like, if I wanna see where I can get vitamin C naturally at this time of year, let me choose my state and month and the nutrient I need so it only shows me in-season produce that have X% of that nutrient.

Great tool to live more sustainably.