Unlike a microwave, you can put whatever you want in your refrigerator. For every article on the internet that claims you should never put bananas or tomatoes or basil in your refrigerator, there’s another article outlining a very legitimate scenario where refrigerating any of those ingredients would make sense.
So, instead of composing a rigid “banned foods” list for your refrigerator, we figured it’d make a bit more sense to dive into a few scenarios where the refrigerator could shorten an ingredient’s lifespan. From there, you can decide for yourself whether or not an ingredient belongs in your refrigerator.