If you incorporate these ingredients in your cooking, your left-overs will last longer:
- honey
- salt
- garlic
- sugar
- ginger
- sage
- rosemary
- mustard / mustard seed
- cumin
10 Spices That Make Your Food Last Longer
Submitted 9 months ago by activistPnk@slrpnk.net to food@slrpnk.net
Magiccupcake@startrek.website 9 months ago
Adding sugar in low amounts to food will makw is spoil faster. Sugar is only a preservative at high sugar concentrations to prevent bacterial growth.
Notably missing from this lists are acids: lemon juice, vinegar, citric acid which will lower ph and slow bacterial growth.
activistPnk@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
thanks - i’ve updated the post.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I would assume the same is true for honey, since honey is just a solution of sucrose and glucose thats high enough in concentration of those sugars that it won’t mold, but it will if you dilute it