How to prevent your refrigerator from becoming a breeding ground for bacteria?

Refrigerators nowadays come with various features aimed at antibacterial use to ensure user health safety, but don't just put food in the fridge carelessly, creating favorable conditions for bacteria to thrive...

1. How to prevent your refrigerator from becoming a breeding ground for bacteria?

Refrigerators nowadays come with various features aimed at antibacterial use to ensure user health safety, but don't just put food in the fridge carelessly, creating favorable conditions for bacteria to thrive. Let's explore some handy tips below to help you keep your fridge from becoming a breeding ground for bacteria.
Refrigerator Hygiene
Proper food storage in the refrigerator
The reason behind bacteria growth in the refrigerator
The main reason your home fridge becomes a living and growing place for bacteria is due to improper food storage. Bacteria can still survive at the temperature of the freezer compartment; at this temperature, they only temporarily cease activity but are not dead, and when we thaw the food to cook, during this process, the bacteria will revive.

Bacteria can still survive in the freezer compartment
For the fresh compartment, the reason bacteria are prone to grow is due to mixing raw and cooked foods together, leaving food for a long time to deform or putting hot cooked food into the fridge. Doing so not only creates conditions for harmful bacteria to grow but also wastes energy.

Bacteria thrive when raw and cooked foods are mixed together
Some ways to counteract bacterial growth in the refrigerator
To counteract and prevent the proliferation of bacteria in the refrigerator, you need to follow these principles:
+ Regularly clean the refrigerator: you should clean the refrigerator regularly and properly, at least once a week. Regular cleaning of the refrigerator like this will help eliminate the hiding places of bacteria, not allowing them to have a place to live and grow.

Regularly clean the refrigerator
+ Clean and divide food into smaller portions before storing in the refrigerator: before storing fresh food in the fridge, you need to clean them to remove harmful substances (feces, pesticides, etc.) as well as harmful bacteria. If the food to be stored in the freezer compartment cannot be used up at once, you need to divide it into smaller portions, separate packages to avoid the case of having to thaw the whole block and not using it all, which will cause toxins to penetrate deeply into the food, harming health.
+ Organize and store food scientifically: organizing and storing food scientifically and properly will help the refrigerator stay tidy, cleaner, limit bacteria survival and growth. Store raw foods such as meat, fish, etc. separately from cooked foods or other foods to avoid contamination. Especially, food stored in the refrigerator should be tightly covered or wrapped in sealed bags.

Organize and store food scientifically and properly
+ Dispose of spoiled food that has been in the refrigerator for a long time:
when you discover food stored in the refrigerator has become deformed, wilted, changed color, or has a foul smell, you need to dispose of it immediately to prevent harmful bacteria from thriving and spreading to other foods.