To provide a package for simply preventing fungi of vegetables and fruits and dew condensation of films.

The freshness retaining package preserves the vegetables and fruits such as fruits, vegetables, fruit vegetables or mushrooms by putting them in an air permeable and water vapor permeable high polymer film and maintaining 0.001-3% ethanol concentration in the closed package. The high polymer film has a pore or pores and/or a flaw or flaws having ≤0.06 mm2 open pore area. The package preferably has ≥1 pores and/or flaws. The package has 0.5-10% oxygen concentration, 10-25% carbon dioxide concentration and 0.001-3% ethanol concentration, preferably 0.05-0.5%, and preferably has 0.5-3% weight decrease in the whole weight of the package in 48 hours after closing the vegetables and fruits with the polymer film.