How To Prevent Your Apple Slices From Browning

How To Prevent Your Apple Slices From Browning

It is surprising to note that there’s a lot of methods on how to stop your sliced up apples from becoming brown. But what is more surprising is the fact that there’s actually only 1 way for you to prevent your apple cuts from becoming brown with using the least effort on your part.

Let us first discuss why these apples are becoming brown.

Try picking a ripe apple fruit off from its tree then you will notice that it will usually last for a couple weeks before eventually rotting then becoming soft. However, those freshly cut and sliced up apples are becoming brown immediately after those chemicals, that are inside the fruit which contains iron, reacts with oxygen from our air.

This is something that all of us encounter everyday, when those iron-based objects becomes rusted or the scabs on your cuts turn brown. This chemical reaction is being referred as “oxidation”, while the particular enzyme which causes oxidation is named “polyphenol oxidase”, or commonly referred to as “tyrosinase”.

Actually, there are so many cells present inside 1 apple fruit, and when you cut the fruit open, these cells gets exposed to oxygen which is present in our air, so it causes the fruit to become brown. A bruised apple fruit has signs of some oxidation already.

When the fruit drops from a tree, its cell walls are broken so the cells then can freely flow inside, causing it to react towards the air inside that fruit. Yes, there’s air inside apple fruits, and that it is said that these fruits are made of 20 percent air, hence why apples float!.

Now, we’ve established what is causing this phenomenon in our apples we now have to determine how it could be stopped. 1 very common method is drizzling extract of a lemon onto the cut up apples. However, this method will change its taste.

When lemon juices are mixed with water, this mixture is then called an “acidulated water” mix. Lime is okay also as a replacement for the lemons. This water plus acid mix could also work for other fruits, such as avocados, pears & peaches.

Other juices are also fine to be substituted to prevent apples from browning – orange, pineapple and apple juices are examples. Some people are even using a popular soda, Sprite. There’s also that commercialized product in the market, commonly known also as “Fruit fresh”, and just like those other juices mentioned, these liquid could also cause change the apple’s taste & flavor.

Investing on those shrink-wrap machines are also another option to prevent the apples from browning. This is commonly practiced by several supermarkets selling fruits. However, this method is a very expensive investment which will require one to purchase several shrink wraps.

So take note of all my tips and hopefully you get good results with whatever method you choose to use.