7 FOODS YOU SHOULD NOT STORE IN YOUR FRIDGE

Did you know that refrigerating certain foods can actually change their flavor (not in a good way). Not only do they lose their texture but it also reduces their nutritional value. Here’s a list of foods you should not store in your fridge but first it beats me as to why fridge has a‘d’ and refrigerator doesn’t, haha but I digress. 

A hack for refrigerating perishables if need be, use a cling film, it’s the moisture that wrinkles skins of such foods, so ‘cover’ them in an airtight cling film and they’ll last longer, I do so for capsicums, lemons and the ones written below. 

i) Tomatoes- Refrigeration ruins the texture.

ii) Onions- Unless cut up, but store your onions in the pantry.

iii) Bread- Yes, that expression? I know it. You may make your bread last longer, but those slices will be dry, Oh so dry. Unless you prefer stale, dried-out slices on your sandwich. 

Keep what you’ll eat at warm temperature then freeze the rest.

iv) Fresh herbs- The fridge robs them of their flavor and dries them up. No need. Instead, put them in a small glass, stems down and in a little room-temperature water, and place them on the counter top, out of direct sunlight.

v) Fruits-Fruits like avocado, bananas, pears, apples etc. Ripe avocado can be refrigerated but an unripe one.

 Unless you’re freezing them for a smoothie as frozen bananas make the best smoothies. Refregirating these fruits prevents them from further ripening. The warm temperature helps finish the ripening process.

vi) Carrots- Carrots wither (shrink). A hack for storing carrots in your fridge is by putting them in a nylon paper and make an opening at the end, it can stay fresh for a week. Preferably you can also peel them and store them in a glass jar they last longer and they’ll be crunchy.

vii) Cereals- Just keep your morning cereals out of the fridge, don’t upset them. Store them in an open space, for free circulation of air.