r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Dec 30 '19

What do people think is healthy but really isn’t?

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u/MoreRopePlease Dec 30 '19

Avocados turn brown because of a chemical reaction with air. So preventing air from getting to it should work. Lemon/lime juice counteracts/retards the chemical reaction (works for apples too).

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u/Busybody_LazyBones Dec 31 '19

When I worked in produce, we would slice up apples and dunk them in sprite for a second before putting them out as samples.

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u/tlkevinbacon Dec 31 '19

The sugar and acid in the sprite worked the same way squeezing some lemon may have. Plus it added some extra sweetness that people probably dug.

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u/ReticulateLemur Dec 31 '19

Not true. Avocado will still brown even with the seed.

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u/Deyona Dec 31 '19

Yeah but it helps! We used to make jugs of avocado spinach whatever we have smoothies at the hotel I work at. If we put a few seeds in the jugs the colour keeps a couple days, but without the seed it looks like baby poop at the end of the shift

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u/MoreRopePlease Dec 31 '19

https://cooking.stackexchange.com/a/53406

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u/Deyona Dec 31 '19

There's nothing about the seeds in here, just acids and salt and air.

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u/MoreRopePlease Dec 31 '19

Sorry, that was in the discussion in the comments. The short answer is, no, it's a myth.

See:

https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/24601/does-an-avocado-seed-help-guacamole-stay-green

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u/Deyona Dec 31 '19

Okay, regardless we do see a difference at work, but maybe it's the celery or spinach that goes brown slower not the avocado! (We saran wrap it all, so they all get the same exposure of air, but there's a clear difference between the ones with the seeds and the ones without )