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Nowadays, most people store their food in the fridge to extend its shelf life. This is all well and good, but not for all foods, even if it has become common practice to store them this way.<\/p>\n
Nowadays, most people store their food in the fridge to extend its shelf life. This is all well and good, but not for all foods, even if it has become common practice to store them this way.<\/p>\n
Although the shelf life can indeed be extended with cold in many cases, this is usually at the expense of flavour or consistency and the loss of important nutrients. Bread<\/strong><\/p>\n Bread moulds easily when it is stored warm and moist, which is why it often ends up in the fridge, where it can be stored in airtight packaging for a week longer than normal.<\/p>\n However, this destroys the crystals of the flour contained in the bread, as they cannot tolerate the cold. The bread becomes harder and its flavour changes adversely, becoming brittle and bland.<\/p>\n It is better to freeze fresh bread in portions and leave to defrost overnight for daily use.<\/p>\n Tomatoes<\/strong><\/p>\n The tomato is a sun-loving plant that prefers to be stored in a shady place without packaging at a constant temperature of around 16 \u00baC rather than in the fridge. Tomatoes continue to ripen after picking and only develop their full flavour if they are not refrigerated.<\/p>\n During the ripening process, tomatoes release the ripening gas ethylene, which also causes fruit and vegetables in their immediate vicinity to ripen, so their shelf life can be reduced. It is better to store them separately.<\/p>\n Citrus fruits and exotic fruits<\/strong><\/p>\n These fruits are very sensitive to cold and should be stored in a cool place, i.e. up to 12\u00baC, but the fridge is too cool at 6\u00baC and the fruits quickly lose their intense flavour. It is therefore better to store them only for a short time and in a cool place outside the fridge.<\/p>\n Cucumbers, courgettes, peppers, pumpkins and melons<\/strong><\/p>\n These fruits and vegetables have a very high water content and are therefore also unsuitable for storage in the fridge, as they lose a lot of flavour because they become increasingly watery due to the excessive cold.<\/p>\n As a general rule, it is better to buy all the fruits and vegetables mentioned in small portions so that they can be eaten within a few days, as the loss of flavour and nutritional value is simply too high, despite the extended shelf life when stored in the fridge.<\/p>\n Below is a list to help with the storage of various foods:<\/p>\n \u00a0 Die meisten Menschen lagern ihre Lebensmittel heutzutage im K\u00fchlschrank, um deren Haltbarkeit zu verl\u00e4ngern.\u00a0 Dies ist gut und richtig, allerdings nicht f\u00fcr alle Lebensmittel, auch wenn sich deren Lagerung mittlerweile so eingeb\u00fcrgert hat. Zwar kann die Lebensdauer mit K\u00e4lte in vielen F\u00e4llen tats\u00e4chlich verl\u00e4ngert werden, jedoch meist auf Kosten von Geschmack oder Konsistenz und dem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_id":["555"],"_fgj2wp_old_id":["259"],"rank_math_focus_keyword":["haltbarkeit von lebensmitteln \u2013 ii \u2013 frisches obst und gem\u00fcse"],"rank_math_analytic_object_id":["3226"],"rank_math_internal_links_processed":["1"],"_trp_automatically_translated_slug_en_GB":["shelf-life-of-food-ii-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables"]},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essen-und-trinken","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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What should not be stored in the fridge?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Leafy vegetables (lettuce, spinach) A few days in the fridge, fruit and vegetable drawer\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
Fruit vegetables (pepper, tomato, aubergine, cucumber), seed vegetables (peas, beans) Cool, but not in the fridge\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
Root vegetables (celery, carrots, kohlrabi) 8 days in the fridge, fruit and vegetable drawer\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
Berries 2-3 days in the fridge, fruit and vegetable drawer\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
Cool tropical fruits, unripe citrus fruits, but not in the refrigerator\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
Apples and pears Apples 3-5 months, pears 1-3 months at storage temperature not above 5 \u00b0C, dark, airy\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
Bread, fresh Wheat bread: 1-2 days, wholemeal bread: 10-12 days in bread box, stone crock\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
Potatoes, small quantities for a few weeks in a basket or wooden crate, dry, cool, airy\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
Potatoes, large quantities, 6-8 months in the potato rack (special box for storing potatoes), slatted rack, dark, airy, 5-10 \u00b0C, 80-90 % relative humidity\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
Fish, fresh Refrigerate for up to 1 day, coldest point 0-4 \u00b0C\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
Meat, raw 1-2 days in the refrigerator, coldest point 0-4 \u00b0C\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
Minced meat, raw Max. 8 hours in the refrigerator, coldest point 0-4 \u00b0C\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
Chicken, raw 1-2 days in the fridge, coldest point 0-4 \u00b0C\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
Source: Food stock, aid booklet (1996)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"