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it is acidic so it would significantly retard bacteria growth.
Using vinegar to preserve food is called pickling. It usually involves removing water from the food by soaking it in a brine (salt water) solution and then allowing the food to soak the vinegar back into it. Many foods can be pickled such as fish (herring) and cucumbers.
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What is the examples of food preserve?
vinegar (when pickling), salt . . .
How did people preserve food on a sailing boat?
Before cans, jars, and freezers. Food was preserve by being salted, being placed in oil, or with vinegar.
What household materials can preserve food?
Examples: salt (sodium chloride), vinegar, sugar.
How oil and vinegar prevent spoilage of food?
Oil and vinegar have antiseptic qualities which help preserve food. The oil submerses the food from any airborne contaminants, while the vinegar sterilizes the food's environment.
Could vinegar preserve food?
Vinegar is a preservative because it composes many acids.
What is to preserve by soaking in vinegar or brine?
Foods soaked in vinegar are pickled, and soaked in salt are salt-cured. Both are means of preserving food. <><><> It is called "pickling"
Why does pickling cucumbers in vinegar helps to preserve them?
Just like salt, to preserve meat, vinegar does the same to cucumbers.
Which cucumber will preserve in first salt water or vinegar?
sea cucubmber
What is the uses for vinegar?
To flavour food To preserve food It can also be used to discourage rodents such as mice and rats from entering your garden if you sprinkle some around the edges of your garden
Can you preserve walnuts?
Yes, walnuts can be pickled in vinegar
Why do you use salt and vinegar to preserve vegetables and fruits?
Yes
How do you pickling?
By using small amount of vinegar it preserve pickle.
