What Do You Look For In A Food Storage Container?

Whether it's packing up leftovers or toting lunch to work, food storage containers are an important tool in your kitchen. We're going to be testing the top brands of food storage containers and we want to find out what you think is the most essential quality of a good container. Is it price? Easy organizing? A leak-proof lid?

We'll be researching and testing all of these variables (and more!) in The Daily Meal's test kitchen, but first we want to know what's important to our readers.

So what's the most important thing you look for in food storage containers? Let us know in this quick poll!

Click here to take a quick poll on the qualities you look for in food storage containers. 

Here are the brands we're testing: Aladdin, Anchor, Ball, Bentgo, Bormioli Rocco, Collapse It, Cook Pro, Crate & Barrel, Glad, Joseph Joseph, Lifefactory, OXO, Prepworks, Rubbermaid, Snapware, Thermos, Up & Up, Weck, and Ziploc.

Feel free to follow up with any qualities we missed or your favorite brands and varieties of food storage containers in the comment section of this story.

We'll reveal the results of our testing on March 10 with a complete ranking of different varieties and brands of the all-important food storage container.