This app will tell you when your food is about to go bad

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You arrive home from work and begin to make that dinner you were mentally preparing all afternoon. You spend thirty minutes chopping vegetables for a beautiful salad, but when you pull the lettuce out of the fridge, the produce bag sags heavily with the weight of that weird green-brown lettuce juice pooled at the bottom.

Surely, many can recall an incident like this, as Americans end up discarding about 25 percent of the food they buy, but a new app called Foodkeeper hopes to significantly reduce that number.

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Stephanie Talmadge

Stephanie is an editorial assistant at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Modern Luxury Media.