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Food stored in refrigerators has a longer shelf life. Why?

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  • Microbes thrive usually in hot and humid climatic conditions. They cannot reproduce and multiply in low temperatures i.e., cold temperatures.
  • The basic idea behind refrigeration is to slow down the activity of microbes present in food. So that it takes longer for the microbes to spoil the food.

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