Smartphone app monitors food expiration dates
Researchers at Wolverhampton University have developed a new smartphone application that helps households reduce the amount of food they waste.
The ’Consume Within’ app is able to track the expiration dates of shop-bought and home-made items.
The Apple iPhone application was developed by Unibyte, a spin-out company from the Caparo Innovation Centre (CIC), a partnership between the university and the Caparo group of companies, based at Wolverhampton Science Park.
Using the app, food items can be allocated quickly and easily to three different locations - fridge, freezer or cupboard - and their expiration dates set individually. The user can choose a photo to go with the item, as well as a special barcode-type sticker if they wish, to make the item easy to identify at a later date. The app then alerts users of the foods that are about to expire within the next three days and displays them by location or as a single list.
The special stickers can be obtained from the Consume Within website, where there is also a free downloadable sample sheet to try them out.
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