Garlic paste color

In a standard Lebanese garlic paste recipe prepared with the same proportions of ingredients and the same process (garlic cloves, lemon juice, olive/sunflower…

1. Wayne Van Nieuwenhuizen reply

   In South Africa lemon juice is preserved with SO2, this can either bleach or maintain the colour of the garlic, the oil will behave in colour as intended. The citric acid is givin…

2. Paula Khati reply

   Thanks so much for your reply. I was thinking of freshly squeezed lemon juice though. I'm trying to look it up in the literature with little success. Do you think there would be a…

3. Food R&D Emeritus reply

   Practically olive oil is darker than sunflower oil due to presence of chlorophyll specially in the virgin grade, so it should influence the color of the finished condiments.

4. Paula Khati reply

   so maybe a bigger quantity of lemon juice (citric acid) could render it white eventually? but the emulsion may be affected..

5. Food R&D Emeritus reply

   IF this is a traditional recipe from Your ancestors originally made with olive oil, then why change it.? Besides the olive oil savory taste can impart its own flavor to the prepar…

6. Food & Material Scientist reply

   @paulakhaty Garlic contain sulphur containing compounds, also when garlic is crushed the enzymes act with release of such compounds. Is there a possibility of reactions of these c…

7. Wayne Van Nieuwenhuizen reply

   They are clearly 2 different products, different taste and Colour and two different costing pastes. Olive oil is the traditional and the sunflower is maybe a modern made in kitche…

8. Paula Khati reply

   @nanoscientist thank you! so it is more the initial color of the oil than the effect of citric acid on the garlic you would say? I basically have one day of experiments to conduct…