1. Food can also be preserved with salt. This process is called salting.
2. Salting can be done in two ways as shown below.
a) Adding a lot of salt to the food.
b) Soaking the food in a salt solution.
3. Bacteria and fungi cannot grow in salty conditions. Hence, salted foods last longer.
4. Examples of food that can be preserved by salting are fish, meat, eggs, vegetables and fruits.
5. Salting will change the taste, colour and destroy food nutrition.
2. Salting can be done in two ways as shown below.
a) Adding a lot of salt to the food.
b) Soaking the food in a salt solution.
3. Bacteria and fungi cannot grow in salty conditions. Hence, salted foods last longer.
4. Examples of food that can be preserved by salting are fish, meat, eggs, vegetables and fruits.
5. Salting will change the taste, colour and destroy food nutrition.
