How To Keep Your Avocados Green From Bon Appetit Magazine

What a beautiful cover of Gwyneth Paltrow on Bon Appetite magazine this month. Wow, this girl is multi talented and can cook? Amazing. I came across some really cool information in Bon Appetite Magazine this month on how to keep your avocados green, without pouring lemon juice on it. What to know how? Keep reading:

"It's always upsetting to watch a luscious (and expensive!) Hass avocado turn from vibrant green to icky brown after you've cut into it. i used to slice avocados just before serving, adding yet another time-sensitive step to getting dinner on the table. Then a visiting chef at my culinary school showed us that rinsing or submerging in cold water prevents the sliced (and exposed) fruit from browning for hours. So cool! So Simple! So...mysterious! Even food scientist Shirley Corriher isn't sure what's going on. Phenolic compounds cause the browning," she says. "Perhaps you're rinsing off enough of these compounds to slow the process." While we wait for a proven scientific explanation, we can just enjoy the phenomenon."