To prevent fresh vegetable foods from deteriorating, for example, dropping off fruit granules, drying back of fruit bunch, change to morbid states, overripe, and the like, occurring during the storage and maintain the value of commodity by containing vegetable fresh foods in a vessel of a specific structure in the presence of zeolite, and the like inside a refrigerator under specific conditions.

A container 1 that is surrounded with a thermally insulating material so as to cause no air flow between the inside and the outside of the vessel and is equipped with a window 2 in which air is tightly sealed in a space surrounded with 2 or more plates of high thermal conductivity or a container 1 that has a window made of a thermally conductive layer with the conductivity of 1×10-3 to 1.5×10-2 cal/deg/sec/cm2 is used for storage. Fresh vegetable foods, for example, grape, melon, or the like, are placed in the container 1 together with zeolite or a porous stone, for example, Oya-ishi (Pumice tuff) and the container is stored in a refrigerator kept at -2°C ≤ the average temperature or the midpoint temperature ≤4°C. In a preferred embodiment, this container is equipped with a partition wall 3 so that the wall 3 may separate the above space in the window 2 into a space contacting with the outside plate and a space contacting with the inside plate of the window.