Your fresh food & produce can last longer, taste better!

The FridgeBuddy’s unique ability to control temperature and humidity levels in your refrigerator and freezer may offer your fruits, vegetables and other perishable foods a new lease on life – but there’s also a hidden danger that so often goes completely undetected, and the FridgeBuddy protects you! While refrigeration and humidity slow the decay of your fruits and vegetables, they don't halt the production of harmful ethylene gas, whose effects can be quick and destructive. Ethylene gas levels as low as 1 part per million (ppm) can destroy an entire shipment of produce in a single day by accelerating the ripening process and making produce vulnerable to disease - imagine the damage it does to the food in your refrigerator! Ethylene gas is a ripening agent produced naturally by all plant tissue. Automotive emissions, plastics, smoke and fluorescent lights all increase ethylene gas levels, as well. When fruits and vegetables are growing in the ground, ethylene gas plays an important role in their life cycle and even helps them become colorful and tasty. After harvest, however, ethylene can become a plant’s worst enemy, causing fruits to ripen and decay, vegetables and flowers to wilt. Because plants produce ethylene even after they are harvested, and are exposed to external sources of ethylene, confined storage areas, refrigerators and freezers are full of the deadly gas. You've seen the effects of ethylene gas damage many times: shrink (fresh produce and flower bulbs); russet spotting (leafy vegetables and eggplants); yellowing (cucumbers, broccoli and brussel sprouts); odor (garlic and onions); wilting (vegetables and cut flowers); scald and loss of crunch (apples); and rind breakdown (citrus). Without a system to remove this ethylene gas, the optimum shelf life of your fruits and vegetables can be cut to only a few days! Passing the Test Independent testing by the Department of Geology at the University of South Florida and Pearson Testing Laboratories, Inc. in Marietta, Ga., has demonstrated the FridgeBuddy’s ability to absorb ethylene gas and moisture – and the effect that ability has on the shelf life of perishable food. More than 2,300 hours of testing at the University of South Florida determined that the active ingredient in the FridgeBuddy – the mineral Guerite – absorbs up to 5% of its weight in ethylene gas and up to 11% of its weight in water. In summarizing its findings, the USF Dept. of Geology stated that "... this product is safe, reliable and highly effective at removing water (humidity) and ethylene gas from refrigerators. This will result in better energy efficiency, longer shelf life of food and floral products, reduction of odor, and reduction of mold, mildew and bacteria, which thrive in high humidity environments." Order your FridgeBuddy Now! Click Here! Return to Top