Salt is added to preserve meat pickles etc. because salting kills bacteria by the process of

Options

A. dissolution
B. distillation
C. plasmolusis
D. imbibition.

Answer

C

Explanation

Plasmolysis is the characteristic feature of living walled cells All living walled cells plasmolysis when kept in a hypertonic solution Pickels. Meat and fish are preserved by salting Similarly, jams and jellies are preserved by sweetening with sugars Salting adn sweetening create hypertonic condition in which the fungi and batcteria get killed by plasmolysis