About 247FoodCheck

247foodcheck.com answers one question, thousands of ways: is it safe? Safe to eat while pregnant, safe after three days in the fridge, safe to reheat, safe past the date on the label, safe after a night on the counter.

Every verdict on this site is grounded in official public guidance: the NHS (pregnancy and breastfeeding food advice), the UK Food Standards Agency (reheating, chilling and date labelling), and the USDA FoodKeeper database (storage times, a public-domain resource maintained with the FDA and Cornell University). Where UK guidance is stricter than US guidance — cooked rice being the famous example — we follow the stricter UK position and say so on the page.

We don't make up numbers, and we mark every page with its primary source. Where the sources disagree, the stricter one wins: for example, the UK advice to eat chilled cooked leftovers within 2 days beats the USDA's 3 to 4 days, and cooked rice is limited to 1 day. The site is part of the 247 Tools Network of free reference tools.

Who writes this site

247foodcheck.com is written and maintained by Jordan Morley, an independent publisher. Jordan is not a doctor, dietitian or food-safety professional: the site reports what the NHS, the Food Standards Agency and the USDA say, shows which source each answer comes from, and links to it so you can check. Each page shows when it was last updated.

Editorial standards

Verdicts come from NHS, FSA and USDA guidance and nowhere else, never from affiliate relationships (see our affiliate disclosure). We do not test products, rate brands or publish user reviews. If official guidance changes, pages are updated, and if you spot something out of date, please tell us via the contact page. Read how we handle data in our privacy policy.

Where to start

Browse by question: pregnancy, breastfeeding, fridge storage, freezing, reheating, use-by dates and left out overnight, or see our best-of guides.