proven science

Ethylene Gas - What is it ?

All fruit and vegetables have a hormone called ethylene which is responsible for the ageing and ripening process. It is released as a gas by fruit and vegetables as the produce is maturing.

Exposure of fruit and vegetables to even small amounts of this ethylene gas will cause accelerated ripening and decay.

Refrigerators are an ethylene trap

Domestic refrigerators are not an ideal storage environment for fresh produce. Not only is it difficult to ensure adequate humidity levels for your produce, but the enclosed space and limited airflow of your refirgerator create an ethylene trap that allows ethylene gas to build up. While this build up of ethylene is not harmful to people, it is deadly to your fresh produce.

When tested in university researchers in Australia more than 80% of domestic refrigerators were found have had ethylene at levels that were damaging to fresh produce, causing up to a 50% loss in fresh storage life.

Proven Effectiveness with KeepFresh

KeepFresh has been tested by independant university researchers and has been shown to remove up to 99% of ethylene gas from a storage environment.

Produce storage trials using KeepFresh have shown that fresh storage life has been extended by up to 190%.

KeepFresh has many years of proven performance.

KeepFresh has been used as a commercial product in the fruit and vegetable industry throughout the world for more than 30 years. It has a proven track record of keeping fruit and vegetables fresh and is now available for you to use at home.