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Question
How are we preparing pickles? What are the steps involved in that?
Answer in Brief
Solution
- Pickles are prepared usually by the addition of excess salt. The salty solution creates a high concentration (hypertonic) in the external medium of the vegetable/fruit which is used for making pickles.
- Therefore water comes out of the vegetable and it undergoes plasmolysis and begins to shrink.
- Thus when the water content is lost the pickle is able to retain its shelf life for a longer period.
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