A REFIGERATOR AND FRESHNESS MAINTAINING METHOD THEREOF

摘要

A refrigerator is disclosed. A freshness maintaining device is fixed in the refrigerating chamber of the refrigerator. The freshness maintaining device comprises a casing and an inducer arranged in the casing. The casing has a plurality of through holes or a porous structure. The inducer carries vitamin C and can decompose the ethylene gas released by vegetable and fruit to maintain the freshness of them. Furthermore a freshness maintaining method of a refrigerator is disclosed, which employs vitamin C to decompose the ethylene gas released by vegetable and fruit into water and hydrocarbon gas. Then not only the oxidation of vegetable and fruit can be prevented and the physiological aging process can be slowed, but also the decrease of water and nutrient such as vitamin C etc. in vegetable and fruit can be suppressed, hence the freshness of vegetable and fruit can be maintained. In addition the vitamin C inducer in the freshness maintaining device can control the release of vitamin C and can ensure a permanent release of vitamin C for a long time up to 5-6 years.