You’re holding a container of cooked rice, it’s Tuesday, you made it… Sunday? The internet’s answer is usually a 1,500-word essay with the number buried somewhere under a photo of rice. This site exists to give you the number first.
FoodStorageCheck answers one question well: how long a food keeps in the pantry, refrigerator, or freezer — according to the USDA FoodKeeper dataset — and what date that works out to for the day you stored it.
What makes it trustworthy
- Every duration is quoted from an official, public-domain federal dataset, with the snapshot version and checksum published on the sources page.
- When the source has no number, we say so plainly instead of inventing one.
- Freezer times are labeled as best-quality windows, because that is what they are — frozen food at 0 °F stays safe indefinitely.
- We never claim a date, a smell test, or a look proves food is safe. When in doubt, throw it out.
What it is not
FoodStorageCheck is not a medical or food-safety authority, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by USDA. It is a carefully built reference to official guidance — the digital equivalent of the chart taped inside a well-organized pantry door. For health-related questions, or guidance for higher-risk groups, see FoodSafety.gov.
Publisher and review process
FoodStorageCheck is published and edited by Bineyam Tsegaye. The editor is not a medical professional and does not replace USDA guidance with personal advice. Each data release is checksum-verified, passed through the documented automated validation suite, and manually compared with a representative set of records from the official FoodKeeper source before publication. The page date above records the latest editorial review.
Corrections and suggestions are welcome — the corrections page explains how.