Why add citric acid to compote?
Reading time - 5 minutes.
Citric acid or lemon juice is often added to compote as a preservative. Especially citric acid helps out when a compote is prepared from berries and fruits that do not contain natural pectin in the composition (it also acts as a preservative). Pectin is found in apples, plums, peaches - but it is completely absent in blueberries, cherries and raspberries. Therefore, to add less sugar (another popular preservative, but already of industrial origin), citric acid is used. If citric acid is added to fruit compotes with colored berries, such compote will become bright in color. And the last reason why lemon is added to compote is to diversify the taste. Especially if the berries or fruits have an insufficiently rich taste, lemon can enhance it many times over.
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