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Beheh

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Describe the color of vegetables cooked with baking soda.

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



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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.




Beheh

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Reply 2 on: Aug 19, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


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:D TYSM

 

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