A refrigerator is provided to dispose a ripening container having insulating function at an upper part of a storage chamber and mount an auxiliary heater for the container, thereby ripening food in the container while keeping the storage chamber at a low temperature. A refrigerator includes a ripening container(40) disposed at an upper part of a storage chamber(11) and having an opened upper part. An auxiliary heater(21) is mounted to a door(20) of the storage chamber for heating an inside of the container if necessary. The container has insulation elements to avoid heat transfer between the inside of the container and the inside of the storage chamber.
