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.
vinegar (when pickling), salt . . .
Before cans, jars, and freezers. Food was preserve by being salted, being placed in oil, or with vinegar.
Examples: salt (sodium chloride), vinegar, sugar.
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.
Vinegar is a preservative because it composes many acids.
Foods soaked in vinegar are pickled, and soaked in salt are salt-cured. Both are means of preserving food. <><><> It is called "pickling"
Just like salt, to preserve meat, vinegar does the same to cucumbers.
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
sea cucubmber
Yes, walnuts can be pickled in vinegar
By using small amount of vinegar it preserve pickle.
water can not preserve food it attracts mold