How to Keep Your Fruit and Veggies From Turning Brown

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Keep Your Fruit and Veggies From Turning Brown

If you love fruit and veggies, but do not love it when they turn brown after only a couple of days, it is time to find a new way to keep your fruits and veggies fresh as the day you purchased them. Read on to learn how to keep your fruit and veggies from turning brown.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Refrigerator
Fruit
Veggies
Debbie Meyer fresh bags
Asorbic acid

Step 1

When you get home, the first thing you want to do is remove, say, your strawberries from their container. The strawberries need to stay dry, that means, do not rinse them until it is time to eat them.
Step 2

After the strawberries are placed in a green bag, fold the remaining portion of the bag over and place in your refrigerator crisper.
Step 3

If you love tomatoes, probably those cherry tomatoes, but will not have time to eat them all in one sitting, the best thing to do is, place them in a green bag, without rinsing the tomatoes first. These bags are really good and work. The instructions are easy to follow.
Step 4

Maybe, you are not too sure about these green bags and you would rather use asorbic acid. That is a good way to preserve your fruit as well. Let's say all you want keep only a quarter of an apple to eat for later. If your apple slice stays in the open for too long, it will turn brown. To avoid this. All you need to do is add some asboric acid to the cut apple.
Step 5

Pour a 1/2 tsp. of asorbic acid into a bowl, then use a cooking brush to place it all over the cut apple slice and wrap the apple in some plastic wrap. Then, place in refrigerator crisper.
Step 6

Both these ways of keeping fruit and veggies fresh for more than two days is the way to go. Try it, both these ways will surprise you.