🏷️ About: 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.
- Comprehensive database of fresh, organic food items
- Search function works well and no missing items
- Great resource for food preparation and storage, with information from USDA experts
- Provides information on how long food items can be stored, both raw and cooked
- Clear instructions on how to cook meat
by Lkpadhfa;jodhpurs
App keeps crashing for no reason
by Tigerjgoddess
I love the idea of USDAFoodKeeper and would give it 5 stars, but it doesn't work. When I download it it works fine, but if I go off the front page for any reason it stops working. The same thing happens if I close USDAFoodKeeper . Everything stops working. I even tried uninstalling it and reloading it twice and it happens every time. There is no app support, even though I followed the link from USDAFoodKeeper Store, so I thought if I wrote a horrible review I might get some sort of response!
by Sap No
Let's take an example, mayonnaise. If I am raiding the fridge for a midnight snack, I need to have some solid info. If I discover the date on the mayo is old, I need to know if I can use it on my sandwich, otherwise...dry sandwich. Sure it is past the date, but will it make me sick or is it just going to lose some flavor?
Here Food Keeper cannot really help. It has like 15 words on mayo. USDAFoodKeeper I currently use called Still Tasty has the basic info followed by a page of details, including how to tell when foods are really dangerous, and info about best by dates, etc...
The point is when it comes to food, it's a sin to waste it and even worse to get sick from it. Who has the time to deal with food sickness and at midnight I am not going to market.
Food Keeper just does not provide the info I need. Basically, it is just way too simple and leaves too many unanswered questions.
by DesmoinesDan
USDAFoodKeeper appears to have stopped updating food recalls. They are on the website but not showing up in the iOS apps.
There’s no way to send feedback through USDAFoodKeeper to alert anyone of issues.
by Pastureprchr
Every time I wish to share a food recall on FB all it does is “Share on your time line” than a fill in box with “http//“ at the beginning - it’s 2019, not 1980, it is possible to do this better.
by GreenwoodAngel
Search will not return any results. Not even for “apple”. Great idea but major fail.
by Tedzzz
Too many flaws that would be so easy to fix if they tested it and then fixed issues found. It works a basic level ... if you really need it.
Enhancement: provide scaled flagging of danger of consuming past exp date: one x taste bad 3x does not work. 6 x will make kids sick 10 x will kill you provide way to search and list foods based on danger to health or probability of recipes failure due to being to old
by Motinalisa
Not impressed. Half of the things in my kitchen aren't even listed.
It has very little information about the ones that are listed and some listings are unclear. E.G., "potatoes - in the pantry 1-2 months, in the refrigerator 1-2 weeks"...what? Wait...do you mean instant in the pantry and fresh in the fridge or are fresh potatoes good longer if left out of the refrigerator? Obviously not. But it should be easier to comprehend than this. (Not everyone has as much common sense as I do.) 😋
I can get better, clearer, faster information by just googling what I need, when I need it. No need for a useless app taking up space on my phone.
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by Halloweenbabe31
Setting says English but while searching Spanish names show. Very frustrating
by Erinmhardebeck
USDAFoodKeeper states that it will give the information of how to properly store food to maintain freshness but all I can find is how long to store food. I wanted tips on proper ways and tips to store to the food to get the best freshness and longest lasting.
by LisaMT24
Hard to read when iPhone in dark mode. No way to change display within app.
by Across_mountains
Not legible when iPhone is in Dark Mode. Good app; but, by now, there is no valid excuse for USDAFoodKeeper not being Dark Mode compatible.
by Full/Skirt
The USDA website has been updated but not USDAFoodKeeper ?!
by D-n-w
I really want an app to keep track of what food I have and when it will go bad. This could be USDAFoodKeeper I want if they change one major thing - I do not want to add every single item in my fridge, in my freezer, and in my pantry to my calendar! It needs a separate internal calendar or even better a searchable list arranged primarily by expiration date. It would be great to be at the store and be able to look up whether I have milk and, if so, how much and how soon it will expire. That would be a five star app.
by LucyP2
I find USDAFoodKeeper really helpful. The only thing I wish is that under each meat it had a tab for how long raw meat will last in the fridge before cooking, a tab for how long it will last once cooked and a tab for cooking information. Right now it has two of those tabs. One with how to cook the meat but I am not always clear weather the meat is raw or cooked regrading self life storage information. Having a clearly marked tab for each with shelf life info for both circumstances would be even more helpful.
Thank you!
LP
by Farbjorn
USDAFoodKeeper gives good info as to how long you can store various food items. When it tells you to refrigerate the food, I wish it would tell you what temperature and humidity it should be stored at, esp. vegetables. From experience certain vegetables like a slightly higher temperatures and different humidity levels than others.
Update: the problems people have been having with USDAFoodKeeper, me included, was a result of a problem with iOS 10.0.1. The new version of iOS 10.0.2 takes care of the problem and now works just fine.
by Sarah Scorscher
I signed up to USDAFoodKeeper to get info about food recalls, but it was hard to figure out how to turn the “push” notices on to actually get them. These should be automatically turned on when you sign up.
by PetuniaBlue
Nice app; however, I wish they would make a way for users to delete viewed items in recall list; very annoying. There is a clear history button that doesn’t appear to work.
by Cteng
This is a great resource for food perpetration and storage. The Internet is full of varying opinions on the temperature of pork or how long an egg dish can be refrigerated. USDAFoodKeeper is a great resource to find the answers to those questions from the experts, the USDA.
by Lvt Kitchen
So far everything I have in my organic kitchen has been in USDAFoodKeeper . I’m not looking for packaged food just fresh since I don’t need to store food filled with preservatives. No problems with search function or missing items so far.
by Kris2800
App has started closing itself out when hitting the options button. Will try a reinstall. Don’t know where else to report bugs because app support link is food-related, not tech support.
by Chris.bernstein
This is a great tool to have on any phone, it explains storage times and gives cooking tips for everything in my kitchen. I'm surprised how much I use it, and the photos it uses are really pretty. They make me want to cook more!
Yes. USDA FoodKeeper is quiet safe to use but use with caution. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 54 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 3.2/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for USDA FoodKeeper Is 23.0/100.
Yes. USDA FoodKeeper is legit, but not 100% legit to us. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 54 USDA FoodKeeper User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for USDA FoodKeeper Is 37.8/100..
USDA FoodKeeper works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or Contact Support.
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.
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.
The FoodKeeper can help consumers use food while at peak quality and reduce waste.
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.
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.
