Author Question: Describe the color of vegetables cooked with baking soda. ... (Read 57 times)

Beheh · **on:** Aug 19, 2018

Describe the color of vegetables cooked with baking soda.

Question 2

Describe the texture of vegetables cooked with baking soda. Why is this so?

momtoalll · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

For most vegetables, the original color intensified when cooked with baking soda.

Answer to Question 2

Most of the vegetables were mushy with the baking soda added because baking soda rapidly breaks down the hemicellulose that is in plant walls.