As-is, and free
Freezer Truth is a free tool, provided as it is — no account, no fee, no warranty. We keep the right to fix it, improve it, change it, or retire it.
Guidance, not guarantees
Every verdict is a straightforward comparison: the date you entered against the published USDA/FSIS FoodKeeper window for that food. Those ranges are guidance, not law. They assume consistent refrigeration at 40 °F or below and consistent freezing at 0 °F, and they cannot model your food's actual handling, packaging, or history. Treat EAT as "within published guidance" and TOSS as "past published guidance" — neither is a guarantee in either direction.
The data, with its caveats
The 651-entry library was compiled on November 7, 2026 from the official FoodKeeper dataset that foodsafety.gov publishes for its own widget, cross-checked against fsis.usda.gov guidance, and shipped as that pinned snapshot — while federal guidance itself keeps changing over time. Ranges longer than three years are displayed capped at three years with the source range kept in the note; hour-scale guidance doesn't become a day countdown and isn't shown. Freezer windows measure quality, not safety: per USDA, food kept constantly frozen at 0 °F remains safe indefinitely. Freezer Truth is not operated by, affiliated with, or endorsed by USDA or FSIS — their published guidance is used here as a reference source.
Your senses govern
No app has ever smelled your yogurt. Smell, appearance, package condition, your freezer's real temperature, and how long anything sat out before you stored it decide what you eat — and they outrank any countdown on this site. Nothing here is medical, dietary, or food-safety advice; if you're cooking for someone pregnant, elderly, immunocompromised, or otherwise high-risk, be stricter than any app would tell you. When in doubt, throw it out.
The name and the work
The tool's name is Freezer Truth — two words, no hyphen. The name, the writing, and the code on this site belong to Kodiak Foundry LLC. Link to the tool freely; don't republish its content as your own.
The law
These terms fall under the law of the State of Florida. If this page changes, the date below changes.
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Terms last updated: November 13, 2026