METHOD FOR KEEPING FRESHNESS OF VEGETABLE

摘要

PURPOSE:To keep the freshness of vegetables, easily, by treating the surface or inner part of the vegetable with a germanium compound. CONSTITUTION:An organic germanium compound such as carboxyethyl germanium oxide or an inorganic germanium compound such as germanium dioxide is preferably dissolved in water, and a vegetable is immersed in said aqueous solution to treat the surface of the vegetable with germanium or the aqueous solution is absorbed in the vegetable from the root or a lower part of the stalk to effect the reaction of germanium to the inner part of the vegetable.