What Are Pickles? | The Science of Food! | SciShow Kids

The video explores the arrival of spring and the joy of cookouts, focusing on pickles. It explains that pickles are cucumbers transformed through pickling, a process involving brine. The video demonstrates how to make pickles at home and compares fresh and pickled foods, highlighting differences in texture, color, and taste. It introduces the concept of irreversible changes, using pickling and cooking eggs as examples, and contrasts them with reversible changes, like water freezing and melting.

What is the primary vegetable used to make the pickles we commonly find on burgers?

• Radishes

• Carrots

• Cucumbers

• Tomatoes

Which ingredient is NOT typically used in making brine for pickling?

• Milk

• Sugar

• Salt

• Vinegar

How do pickled foods generally differ from fresh foods in terms of texture?

• Pickled foods are more brittle

• Pickled foods are softer

• Pickled foods are harder

• Pickled foods are crunchier

What is an example of an irreversible change mentioned in the video?

• Melting ice

• Freezing water

• Boiling water

• Cooking an egg

Which of the following is a reversible change?

• Rusting iron

• Burning wood

• Melting ice

• Baking a cake