Question

Salting is used as one of the methods of preserving fish. Justify.Select one of the options below as your answer: A. Salting of fish leads to diffusion of water from the salt into the fish, making it juicier and helping in preservation of the fish. B. Salting of fish leads to diffusion of water out of the fish, causing removal of water, making the fish drier, and thus helping in preservation. C. Salting of fish leads to diffusion of salt out of the fish, making it drier, and thus helping in preservation.

Answer 1

The correct answer is B. Salting of fish leads to diffusion of water out of the fish, causing the removal of water, making the fish drier, and thus helping in preservation.

Explanation:

Salt is commonly used as a natural preservative for all kind of food including fish, meat, and vegetables. The natural preservation salt causes can be explained as adding salt dehydrates or takes the water out of the fish or food you want to preserve and also kills or reduces most bacteria, fungi and other organisms or agents that cause decomposition to begin. In the same way, adding salt create an inhospitable environment as all of these organisms cannot survive when water is reduced. Thus, the choice that explains salting as a method for preservation is option B as this explains salt leads to diffusion of water and this helps preservation.

Answer 2

Salting of fish leads to diffusion of water out of the fish, causing removal of water, making the fish drier and thus helping in preservation. The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the second option or option "B". I hope that this is the answer you were looking forward to getting and it has helped you.