Make your food last longer: Tips to prolong their freshness | NEWSRUX

NEW ORLEANS — With the rise in meals costs, you are most likely on the lookout for methods to be sure you do not waste meals that spoils.

So, social media is flooded with concepts and hacks, nevertheless it’s greatest to take heed to the scientists, not the newest viral video. To imagine the hacks or to not imagine, that’s the query we put to our knowledgeable Dr. Jeff Hobden of LSU Well being Infectious ailments and Microbiology. That fashionable TikTok hack to place your avocadoes in water within the fridge to make them last more is just not a good suggestion.

“That could be a harmful apply. I believe this hack was calling for individuals to depart their avocadoes for like two weeks and that is simply ridiculous,” stated Dr. Hobden.
Simply put ripe ones, uncut within the fridge.

Water storage can be being proven with different veggies comparable to carrots and celery.

“These are simply avenues for issues like listeria to develop. Salmonella is the opposite pathogen.”

Dr. Hobden says there’s a cause the bins in a fridge are known as crispers. Use them. They hold fruits and veggies longer, as a result of they’re farther away from the chilly, dehydrating air coming from the highest, they usually decrease moisture construct up. Wrapping them in foil or a humid tea towel additionally prevents moisture construct up that occurs in plastic luggage.

In your leftovers, these silicone storage containers may also help, however he says there’s something higher.

“It is the oxygen that spoils meals in a short time. Oxygen promotes microbial spoilage. I am an enormous fan of vacuum sealing luggage,” beneficial Dr. Hobden.

• Vacuum seal meals, meats, and produce. That pulls out the air and oxygen. It additionally protects meals from cross contamination within the fridge.
• Freeze meals.
• Attempt residence canning, freeze drying, or pickling meals.
• Preserve the temperature within the fridge at 40 levels or a little bit decrease. The freezer must be at 0 levels.
• Purchase seasonal and native produce. It’s brisker.
• Purchase “ugly” produce, known as “seconds.” They may not be fairly, however they’re fit for human consumption and cheaper.

  And talking of ugly meals, let’s return to that viral avocado hack.

  “Now brown avocado is simply as protected, and nutritious to eat because the inexperienced. (It’s) simply once more, a visible factor,” he stated.

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