Keeping fruit fresh?

I am making a mixed fruit bowl tomorrow (apples, bananas, kiwi, strawberries, grapes). As you know, when you slice and peel an apple, within a few minutes it starts to turn brown. How can I cut all this fruit in a big bowl and keep it it's original color without browning?

Keeping fruit fresh?
I make fruit salad all the time!



If you HAVE to make it in advance, put everything into separate containers after you slice and dice it up - apples in their own Tupperware, pineapple to itself, cantaloupe all alone, etc... But NOT bananas - slice those in JUST before serving. There's no saving them!!



In your apple bucket, squeeze some lemon juice (fresh or out of the bottle) over the cut apples and toss it around. This depends on how much apple you cut, but just enough to lightly coat the fruit is more than enough.



Now keep it in the fridge.



When you're ready to eat the salad, drain each fruit off, then dump it together in a large bowl - keep an eye out for any fruit that didn't make it. (It's easier to do it now, then go through a whole bowl of soggy, mixed fruit!)



Mix and serve!
Reply:ALWAYS keep in your kitchen

for just this purpose:

1) Powdered ascorbic acid

(which is pure Vitamin C)

buy at health food store or in

any pharmacy. It has a slight

tart flavor. Mix with water and pour over fruit.

2) Always keep a small bottle

of lemon juice. Mix a little in

1/2 glass water and sprinkle

or soak fruit in it.

3) Keep a package of Pectin

(used when canning fruits or

making jams.) Mix some in

water and sprinkle or soak

fruit in it.

4) The ascorbic acid or lemon juice principle works

also on peeled potatoes/

avacados/ or any veggie that would turn dark.
Reply:i think this is possible if u put some plastic rap over the bowl and then make sure there's no way for it to reach the fruit itself. well, hope that works. good luck 2 u. :)
Reply:the only way i think is to put them in a refrigerator
Reply:After you have cut up your fruit put them in lemon juice or just dip them in it. Guaranteed to keep them fresh looking.