The first and foremost step towards leading a healthy life is to keep your surroundings clean and sanitized. Then comes eating a clean and healthy diet that helps in keeping your insides healthy too. But to keep up with all of these healthy habits, one of the most important appliances to keep clean is your refrigerator. Ideally, a refrigerator that is being used regularly to store fresh groceries, cooked food, and all kinds of sauces, should be deep cleaned every 2 months. Not only is it important to keep your food fresher but also to keep food-borne illnesses away. Studies show that illnesses caused by food are mostly because by dirty refrigerators as they become breeding grounds for dangerous bacteria like salmonella, E. coli, and listeria.
The most important reason behind keeping your fridge clean is to prevent the breeding of germs that can further cause diseases like food poisoning. We tend to pile up groceries without finishing the ones that we have stored already. This causes the old vegetables and fruits to decay and make space for germs to start breeding. The same thing happens when there is curry or sauce spilled in the fridge and is not cleaned on time. The refrigerator is the backbone of the whole kitchen and the kitchen is the backbone of your house, it is highly important to keep up with its maintenance.
If you stock up your fridge with fresh food every week then it is only human to spill milk and other liquids like sauces and curries quite often. In that case, it is advised to clean your fridge at least once every month with warm, soapy water. But if you are not so regular with any of these activities, clean your fridge at least once every 2 months.