Tens of millions of households in Britain eat avocados, however they're notoriously onerous to retailer and ripen, with many spoiling rapidly and due to this fact being thrown away. put 4 frequent to the take a look at in a bid to see which one was the simplest at preserving the within flesh of an avocado, inexperienced for the longest.
I bought a four-pack of Asda’s Simply Necessities avocados on January 14 and positioned them into the fridge as quickly as I bought house.
12 days later, on January 26, I took two avocados out of the packet and positioned them right into a fruit bowl - the avocados had been nonetheless agency because the fridge has slowed the ripening course of.
The bowl with two avocados in, sat subsequent to a different fruit bowl on my kitchen desk, which contained bananas - a fruit that provides off ethylene fuel, inflicting fruit to ripen faster.
By January 30, the avocados had been completely ripe and I reduce them in half, earlier than storing every half otherwise within the fridge on the identical shelf. After 10 days, there was just one profitable meals storage hack for preserving avocados completely inexperienced.
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Zip-lock bag
Day 1 - Half an avocado, with the stone nonetheless within the center was positioned inside a zipper lock bag and into the fridge. Day 2 - The flesh had turned brown already. Day 3/4 - The flesh was nonetheless brown.Day 5 - The flesh now had seen indicators of white mould showing. This half an avocado was thrown into the bin.
Cling movie
Day 1 - Half an avocado with no stone was wrapped in cling movie and positioned into the fridge. Day 2 - Small areas of the flesh confirmed indicators of browning. Day 3/4 - The flesh had browned additional. Day 5 - The highest layer of the flesh was brown however edible.
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Avocado container
Day 1 - Half an avocado with no stone, positioned into an avocado container after which into the fridge. Day 2 - The flesh had small areas of browning. Day 3/4 - The flesh had browned additional. Day 5 - The highest layer of the flesh was brown however edible.
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Lemon juice and a sealed plastic pot
Day 1 - Half an avocado with no stone, doused in lemon juice and positioned right into a sealed container after which into the fridge. Day 2 - The flesh was completely inexperienced. Day 3/4 - The flesh was nonetheless inexperienced. Day 5 - The flesh was nonetheless inexperienced. Day 7 - The flesh was nonetheless inexperienced however slight browning on the within the place the stone had initially been. That is in all probability as a result of the lemon juice within the plastic pot was unable to get into this space. Day 10 - Nearly all of the flesh was nonetheless inexperienced, however the place the stone had been was now brown as there was no lemon juice left on this space.
The consequence
From buying the avocados to ripening and prolonging its shelf life after being reduce, an avocado will be saved for 3 weeks and 4 days (minimal), if saved within the fridge as quickly as you get house, after which doused in lemon juice and positioned right into a sealed plastic container within the fridge.
To make guarantee all areas of the avocado don’t flip brown, I might’ve added extra lemon juice to the within space the place the stone initially was.
As for why lemon juice works so efficiently at stopping an avocado from turning brown, the acidic properties in lemons react with oxygen first, earlier than it reacts with the avocado.