Fruits in your fridge that could be causing your food to turn brown and go off

A ripe banana or apple could ruin the produce in your veg drawer (Image: (Image: Getty)) The cost of living crisis over the past few years has seen the weekly grocery shop take up an ever larger chunk of many Brits' incomes, making food waste the enemy of every savvy saver and poundstretcher. However, many are oblivious to the fact that storing certain items in the fridge could accelerate the ripening process of their other foods. Certain fruits emit a gas known as ethylene as they ripen, which can cause your other produce to brown and spoil.

While refrigeration generally extends the freshness of fruit and vegetables, placing some fruits in the fridge can lead to an accumulation of this ethylene gas, damaging your other ingredients. This effect may be noticeable if you leave a ripe banana in the fruit bowl and observe your other fruits starting to turn. Gardeners have long exploited this phenomenon to redden their green tomatoes and hasten the ripening process, but there are numerous common fruits that also emit this gas and should be kept separate from your other produce.

Interestingly, apples, pears, grapes, and passionfruit also release high amounts of ethylene gas as they ripen, making them unsuitable for storage with your vegetables. Not all greens will be equally affected, so there are some to bear in mind when stowing away your groceries. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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