My girls' lunch boxes won't fit a whole apple in them, so I have to cut them up. I've sent them cut up a few times; by lunchtime, they were brown and yuck. Today, I thought I would test a few different ways on How To Stop Apples Going Brown in the lunchbox.
I used apple juice, salt water, plain water and soda water. I let them soak for 5 minutes each and left them out in room air for 3 hours.
All the apples remained fresh and crisp, with only slight browning occurring.
Apple Juice
Taste - sweet, subtle juice flavour
Colour - no browning after 3 hours
Salt Water
Taste - salty flavour
Colour - tiny amount of browning
Plain Water
Taste - no flavour
Colour - slight browning
Soda Water
Taste - no flavour
Colour - slight browning
You can view the images below of the apples after 3 hours. I would say the apple juice worked the best, but not much better than just plain water. I will be using plain water from now on!
Amber Aussie Bubs
I also tried this with some lemon juice and it was perfect too
Elisa
I put the cut apple back together and wrap it in foil. No browning 🙂
EUnice
How long did you soak the apples for?
Zoe
Eunice it says 5 minutes she soaked them for