TOP / It learns about preserved food / Preservation by vinegar  
 
 
 The cause over which foods rot or it mourns took up repeatedly that putrefactive bacteria, such as bacteria, mold, yeast, are the causes.The putrefactive bacteria are made of protein.
It has the character to which conversion of the protein of a microbe is carried out in the acid contained in vinegar. Breeding of putrefactive bacteria can be prevented by using vinegar by that.If it soaks in vinegar, as for the typhoid bacillus which caused food poisoning, it turns out in 10 minutes that extinction, coliform bacillus, etc. become extinct in 30 minutes.
 Moreover, there is the same effect as salt in vinegar, and since moisture of foods , such as vegetables, decreases, while a taste is condensed, it becomes easy to take in a lot of vegetables.Moreover, there is the same effect as salt in vinegar, and since moisture of foods , such as vegetables, decreases, while a taste is condensed, it becomes easy to take in a lot of vegetables. Moreover, in order not to be accompanied by fermentation, the color of vegetables does not fall out. Elsewhere, fish and shellfishes have the work which tightens meat and there improves the taste by vinegaring.
 
■Appetite is promoted! Digestion is urged.
 There is work which promotes appetite by promoting secretion of gastric juice and making work of digestion active.When of a poor appetite, appetite can be recovered by eating the dish using vinegar.Moreover, there is work which eats too much and also stops every stomach reclining and indigestion.

■Hypertensive prevention
 There is work to which metabolite after acetic acid of vinegar was used in the body extends a blood vessel, and drops blood pressure.

■It is effective also to recovery from fatigue.

 When grape sugar is disassembled, acid things come out.If the acid things accumulate, the body will acidify.This causes fatigue.Since vinegar makes the acid things an alkaline body, recovery from fatigue has an effect.
 
 It is supposed that it came from China that vinegar got across to Japan across the sea as Emperor Oujin (around the A.D. 200 time).Vinegar was utilized from this time, and vegetables and a fish were soaked and saved.The dish which used vinegar also for the Ten Thousand Leaves comes out.However, as for vinegar, it is since the Edo period comes to belong only to Emperor or an aristocrat and to have spread among people.It came to spread among people and various gastronomic culture was formed.
 
 The pickles in vinegar of the vegetables were carried out together with the spice or the herb around from B.C. 2000, and there was culture which makes pickle.Vinegar has a role which emphasizes salt and can finish cooking deliciously also for little salt. And if vinegar is used, it will be said that it becomes difficult to mourn over food, and it will be used for much food from ancient times.There is also a talk that Cleopatra was melting and drinking the pearl in vinegar.