USDA FoodKeeper Reviews

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.
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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hard to read when iPhone in dark mode. No way to change display within app.

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.

The USDA website has been updated but not USDAFoodKeeper ?!

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.

Setting says English but while searching Spanish names show. Very frustrating

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.

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.

Search will not return any results. Not even for “apple”. Great idea but major fail.

App keeps crashing for no reason

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.

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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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.

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.

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!

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.

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!