Do you put all the food in the fridge? Especially when you have loads of it left after eating or cooking, such as onions, potatoes and bread? So you have to be careful, as the refrigerator can make things bad rather than improve it and lead to health damage.
Some people think they can put any food in the refrigerator in order to preserve it.
It is true that the refrigerator is useful for many foods, but this rule is not always suitable. Rather, putting some foods in it may lead to health hazards.
Duxissimo, a leading French healthcare website, has collected information about foods that should not be placed in the refrigerator.
The list started with tomato kernels, it is better to keep them in a place with a moderate temperature (between 15 and 30 degrees), while placing them in the refrigerator results in a loss of taste, as well as affecting even their sizes.
The site is not recommended to put bread in the refrigerator, because this affects its shape and makes it dry, but it can be frozen according to the same source.
The Huffington Post had previously warned against putting bread in the refrigerator, stating that this process affected his life cycle and made it solid.
There is also avocado, as freezing leads to hardening and immaturity, as well as basil (used in cooking and preparing tea) that badly affects it, as well as olive oil that hardens if it enters a very cold place.
Coffee
He advised the sites not to put ground coffee in the refrigerator, because this will lead to a loss of its taste, and affected by the smells of other foods, and it is better to store it in a cool place, free from moisture.
He pointed out that it is necessary to avoid putting onions - especially the peeled - in the refrigerator, because it cannot resist moisture, and spoil quickly in these climates, as is garlic.
It is also advised not to store chocolate in the refrigerator, especially in the freezing space, because this leads to a loss of its taste, and also not to put potatoes inside the refrigerator, because it quickly loses its true taste due to low temperatures.
Among the fruits that are advised not to be placed in the cantaloupe refrigerator, this fruit cannot ripen in a very cold place, but this step can be taken if it reaches a final stage of ripening, and other sources are advised not to cool it except for a very short period and not keep it for long.
It is people who buy large quantities of apples and freeze them in order to preserve them, which is usually not recommended because apples lose their nutritional value in this way, just as it is not recommended to put apricots and cucumbers in the refrigerator because they may spoil quickly inside them.