It appears that those wacky Japanese have stopped creating giant city-crushing irradiated lizards long enough to develop a refrigerator that — allegedly — uses LED-powered orange light to increase the vitamin C content of vegetables by as much as 10%.

That’s right: Mitsubishi created this line of fridges with a “Delicious Vitamin Boost Light Power Vegetable Compartment”.
With a name that goofy, how can it NOT work as advertised (It’s the “Smuckers Theory of Advertising”)?

And to abolish any lingering threads of doubt, they have included rock-solid proof that this fridge delivers on the ascorbic acid; proof in the form of “before” and “after” photos of a half-head of cabbage. I mean the only proof more convincing than a picture of cabbage would be — oh, I dunno — graphs.

Unfortunately for us Gaijin, the vitamin-boosting fridges are only available in Japan. That’s too bad, ’cause those fridges would be the perfect place for the anime-obsessed American kids to store their Pocky.

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