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How to prevent peeled fruit or vegetables turning brown

Name: How to prevent peeled fruit or vegetables turning brown
Prep time: 1 min
Total time: 1 min
Yield: 3 pieces
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 g vitamin C

Most fruits turn brown soon after peeling due to oxydation, and this is unattractive.

To prevent this, you will find many recipes that tell you to coat them with lemon juice as soon as they are peeled. It's relatively effective when fruit are simply to be used peeled, but if you want to make a coulis or a sorbet for example, this is no longer sufficient.

128 K 4.0/5 (31 reviews)

1 min.

Easy

0.15 €

3 pieces

1 Ingredient

Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

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For 3 pieces, you will need:

1 1 g vitamin C
Total weight: 1 grams

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Preparation: 1 min.

Step by step recipe

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How to prevent peeled fruit or vegetables turning brown : Stage 1

To improve this technique, it is necessary to ask a chemist, and who better than Herve THIS on the subject. He explains that it's the Vitamin C in the lemon juice which prevents the fruit from browning, and not its acidity. So to prevent fruit from browning at all it suffices to add a pinch of Vitamine C.

See the difference in the photo: Two glasses containing mashed pears and lemon juice, mixed for a sorbet 5 minutes ago.

Right-hand glass contains a pinch of vitamin C...

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	0	0	0	0	0 RDI: 0 %
Per 100 g	0	0	0	0	0 RDI: 0 %
Per piece	0	0	0	0	0 RDI: 0 %

The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man

How much will it cost?

For 3 pieces : 0.10 €
Per piece : 0.05 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

Vitamin C

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