explain why food like sauces and pickles contain ethanoic acid (vinegar)
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Vinegar is used in all sorts of food preservation methods. It has a few key properties that make it ideal at slowing or stopping food from spoiling for long periods. It is primarily the pH or acidity of vinegar that inhibits bacterial growth and this process is most commonly called pickling.
Reason
For Preservation.
▫️Vinegar shows acidic property is useful in in preservation purpose of pickles , sauce or any other food material that has to be stored for long term.
▫️ Now due to this property vinegar has a capacity to kill for retired the growth of ingrowing microorganisms that can be e from any unicellular bacteria to venomous viruses that may harm the food and please it's quality.
▫️Apart from acting as a preservative its sometime also enhances the flavour of the food material although it can be considered as the good material to prevent spoilage of items.
▫️Apart from this vinegar also plays an important role in starting the pickling process.
More about Vinegar ⤵️
- Vinegar is is also known as acetic acid.
- It has little sour taste and is obtained by fermentation of ethanol an alcohol containing two carbon molecule.