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Alice Henneman, MS, RD

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apples and oranges

Adding Acidic Fruits to Salads to Keep Fruits from Turning Brown

For fresh fruit salads, mix apples, bananas, or pears with acidic fruits like oranges, tangerines, grapefruit and other citrus fruit or pineapple to keep them from turning brown.

Prepare the acidic fruit(s) first. Then, cut the other fruits, mixing them with in the acidic fruit(s) as you prepare them.

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