Friday, 8 March 2013

Pickling


Pickling preserves food by adding vinegar.Pickling leaves the food with a higher  level of acid,making it an inhospitable environment for spoilage microorganisms.Food preserves by pickling are cucumber,ginger and so on .

The advantages and disadvantages are as follow
Advantages
  • Pickling make food to last longer.
  • Bacteria and fungi cannot grow in at very acidic medium.
  • Pickling keeps thing fresh.


Disadvantages
  • Pickling can change taste of food and destroyed the nutrient of food.
  • Pickling which means there's a lot of salt content. Salt is bad for human health.
  • Increases salt and sugar content of food. 



                                       


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