Fecha de publicación: 07/01/2022 Fuente: WIPO Food Portada The invention discloses a refrigerator and a method for indicating the freshness degree of food materials in the refrigerator. The refrigerator comprises a controller, wherein the controller is configured to obtain food material information corresponding to each food material in a storage chamber, the food material information comprises the food material putting time and the food material shelf life, and the food material putting time and the food material shelf life are used for determining the freshness degree of the food materials; and a food material management interface is generated according to the food material information corresponding to each food material, the food material management interface comprises a food material control corresponding to each food material, the food material control comprises a food material icon and a freshness identifier, and a user is reminded of the freshness degree of each food material through the freshness identifier. The freshness identification is generated into different states according to different freshness degrees of the food materials, so that a user can more intuitively distinguish which food materials are expired, which food materials are about to be expired, which food materials are relatively fresh and the like, and the user can more conveniently and quickly acquire information which the user wants to pay attention to.