What? Pineapple soaked in salt water has no effect? ​​It turns out that I have been doing it wrong all these years

Reviewers of this article:

Zhang Zheng, PhD in Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Soochow University

Yang Chao, PhD in Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Pa Lizhe, chief physician of nutrition, member of the Science Popularization Committee of the Chinese Nutrition Society

Summer is coming

It’s time to show off your pineapple

Speaking of pineapples

I believe many friends will eat

This process will happen:

Soak with salt

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Some people say

After soaking in salt water

Pineapple no longer tastes astringent

But some lazy friends choose to eat directly

It doesn't seem to hurt my mouth

Is salt water useful?

Why do some people think

Does pineapple taste prickly in your mouth?

Let's analyze it below

This "annoying" but delicious fruit

turn out to be

Bromelain from pineapple

Decomposes proteins in the oral mucosa

Eating pineapple will make your mouth feel prickly

This protease

Damage to oral mucosa and gums

Bromelain

In case of salt, acid, alkali, high temperature

Will lose activity

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But this salt is not that salt

Soak pineapple in salt water (low concentration of salt water)

Only a small part of the activity of the protease is inhibited

Salt that actually inactivates proteases

It's actually heavy metal salts

And we eat pineapples soaked in salt water

I feel it is not bitter anymore because

Sprinkling a little salt on sweet foods will make them more sweet

It is worth noting that

Whether soaking in salt water or not

People with allergies are at risk of allergies

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