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2007-01-06 02:22:59 · 18 answers · asked by bdbest_rule 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
its for taste and to preserve it for longer period.
2007-01-06 02:26:11 · answer #1 · answered by elvisjohn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Salt is the most precious food given by God to us, without which, however rich the food be, it is tasteless. Pickles are eaten to increase the food taste, so obviously, if there is no salt in pickles, it would not add to the taste, secondly it also acts as a preservative avoiding bacteria.
2007-01-06 02:40:57 · answer #2 · answered by keentoknow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To preserve the pickle. The pickle will be preserved as the water content will be very low as much salt is added and so any other organism entering the pickle will die as water will be sucked out from the organism's body.
2007-01-06 02:45:45 · answer #3 · answered by diva s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question should be, why do we add more salt to some pickles?
The Answer is works as the preservative and it adds taste too, it's not like only salt can work as the preservative, we add some other things too to sweet pickles.
2007-01-06 02:33:46 · answer #4 · answered by abhinav 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
adding salt to the pickles is basically what makes them pickle. the salt helps remove the water from the cucumber, or whatever you're pickeling, and causes it to shrivel up. it also adds flavor!
2007-01-06 02:26:48 · answer #5 · answered by kittyluvr0223 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excess salt acts as a preservative. Same applies to Jams with sugar
2007-01-06 03:42:07 · answer #6 · answered by Abhishek D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
salt acts lik a preservative in pickels
2007-01-06 02:25:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salt helps in the preservation of cucumbers as pickles.
2007-01-06 02:54:55 · answer #8 · answered by earthling 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
salt not only adds taste to vegetables used for pickling but it also has an bacteriostatioc effect on microbes. salt binds with bound water making water and oxygen unavailable for microbial growth.
2007-01-06 22:14:59 · answer #9 · answered by kanan g 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is added in pickles as a preservative.
Salt helps pickles from many kinds of bacteria.
It also gives taste to the pickle.
2007-01-06 02:32:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
salt acts as a preservative.
my knowledge:
when contaminating bacteria enter a salty (or for that matter, sugary) environment, they are "drained out" of their internal hydration(as a result of osmosis) because of more viscous surroundings, become dried, and dead.
2007-01-06 05:41:27 · answer #11 · answered by unicorn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋