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Why lettuce leaf in contact with plain water is crispy while a lettuce leaf in contact within salad dressing containing salt and vinegar becomes wilted and limp?
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∙ 11y ago
it is to do with the water potential
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∙ 11y ago
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What is simple salad?
Lettuce and Salad Dressing
You need 2 bottles of salad dressing for 5 heads of lettuce. How many bottles of salad dressing will you need if there are 70 heads of lettuce?
28 = (70 / 5) * 2
How is make Caesar salad?
get dressing, lettuce, tomatoes, and crutones.
What major macromolecules are found in lettuce salad with ranch dressing?
lipid
What happens to the cells of a lettuce leaf after you add dressing to it?
It wilts because dressings are typically more concentrated than the cells of the lettuce, putting dressing on ahead of time will cause the lettuce cells to lose water because of osmosis. the water will tend to want to LEAVE the cell to go to equillibrium.
Can lettuce dissolve in vinegar?
It becomes bacon.
Why do lettuce leaves become wilted after they have been in salty salad dressing for awhile?
Lettuce becomes wilted after being in salty salad dressing for a long time because of osmosis. The water inside the cells of the lettuce leaves and is replaced with the salt in the salad dressing.
How do you make a plain salad?
There are many choices in making a plain salad, but one suggestion might be lettuce with tomatoes only.
Is a Caesar salad still a Caesar salad without the Caesar dressing?
The Caesar salad typically has lettuce, crunchy croutons and a dressing which includes lemon juice, olive oil and black pepper. Without these ingredients it cannot properly be called a Caesar salad. On the other hand, you could ask "Can I have a Caesar salad without the dressing or the other ingredients?". By saying that you have indeed called it a Caesar salad. Whether the end result remains a Caesar salad then becomes a question of semantics more than anything else. well i personally, strongly believe that the mere caesar salad could possibly still be the name it was given to be without the dressing.
How many calories in a lettuce wedge with thousand island dressing?
150 per tablespoon
How much dressing for Caesar salad for 200?
Toss your salad with just enough Caesar dressing to coat the leaves; too much dressing will make your lettuce or other greens lose their crispness too soon and go limp.
What is something that starts with r that you can eat?
radish, romaine lettuce, ranch dressing, Ringdings, roast, roe
