The refrigerator has pipped pasteurization, microwaves and pots, knives and eating utensils to be named the most important innovation in the history of food and drink, The Sun reported.
"Refrigeration has played the biggest role in improving the diets of millions of people. It's responsible for bringing a more varied, interesting, nutritious and affordable diet to an ever-increasing number," a Royal Society spokesman was quoted as saying.The Sun said the first known artificial refrigeration was demonstrated in Glasgow in 1748. But fridges were not introduced in homes until the 1920s.The other items on the list are -- ovens, irrigation, threshing machines or harvesters, baking, selective breeding, grinding, ploughs, fermentation, fishing nets, crop rotation, pots, knives, eating utensils, corks, barrels, microwaves, frying.
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"Refrigeration has played the biggest role in improving the diets of millions of people. It's responsible for bringing a more varied, interesting, nutritious and affordable diet to an ever-increasing number," a Royal Society spokesman was quoted as saying.The Sun said the first known artificial refrigeration was demonstrated in Glasgow in 1748. But fridges were not introduced in homes until the 1920s.The other items on the list are -- ovens, irrigation, threshing machines or harvesters, baking, selective breeding, grinding, ploughs, fermentation, fishing nets, crop rotation, pots, knives, eating utensils, corks, barrels, microwaves, frying.