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What fungus decomposes fruits?
High sugar, salt or acid content creates a hostile environment for fungi and bacteria. Candying, salt curing and pickling are methods commonly used to preserve food.
How do you change sugar and salt to salt?
Remove the sugar
Do salt and sugar make cocaine?
No. Salt and sugar are combined all the time in cooking, and no cocaine is formed. In addition to have a different structure from sugar and salt, Cocaine contains nitrogen, which is not found in salt or sugar. Cocaine is derived from the coca plant, and has nothing to do with salt and sugar.
Explain what happens to meat when it is packed in salt?
When the meat is packed in salt it will last longer because the salt prevents the meat from growing bacteria or mold and spoiling. The meat will last for a year or so.
How do you preserve tomato without chemical?
Addition of salt or sugar to dehydrate it, or natural dehydration methods. Could also add an acid to change the pH or change the temperature to prevent bacteria growth.
What does curing meat mean?
Curing meat involves soaking it for a period of time depending on the amount of meat, in a salt/sugar mixture. Depending on the meat you may have another addition, like lemon or lime for fish or a special salt to preserve the colour of beef. Curing was used to preserve meat before the days of refrigeration.
Does water preserve foods?
On meat, salt can preserve food.
What are two natural food preservatives that most of us have in our kitchen cupboards?
Common preservatives used at home include salt, vinegar, and citrus juice.
Does salt preserve swordfish?
yes, salt preserves every kind of meat
How do sugar and salt help in food preservation?
Both sugar and salt can preserve equally well and have been used as preservatives since bygone days. Salt is better used to preserve meat while sugar would do well as a preservative for fruits.
What did the people of 1854 store their meat in?
Usually they would preserve there meat with salt and hang it.
Why does pickling cucumbers in vinegar helps to preserve them?
Just like salt, to preserve meat, vinegar does the same to cucumbers.
How did using salt to preserve meat keep microorganism off?
Salt absorb water and kill microorganisms.
Why does water not preserve apples?
Water is water. It has no substances or chemicals in it that'll preserve the apple. Salt has sodium that preserves the apple. Our ancestors preserved meat with salt because water doesn't preserve things.
Salt and sugar work to preserve food by creating what environment?
Hypertonic environment.
Why is possible to preserve food by adding salt or sugar?
The addition of salt or sugar reduces the water that is available so that spoilage organisms won't grow.
How did Lewis and Clark preserve food?
They used salt to sweeten and keep the meat from spoinling
