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Celery

Celery, onions, carrots and parsley are the four major vegetables that are used for virtually all stocks, many sauces, and a lot of other dishes. Celery contains essential, highly aromatic oil that lends its perfume and flavor to numerous dishes. With its crisp texture, celery is also a very popular appetizer as part of a vegetable platter or a salad topping. Celery gets its crispness due to the rigidity of its stalk combined with a high water content. Its high water content not only makes it exceptionally low in calories but it also reduces the nutrients found in celery.

To store celery, trim the base and remove any leaves or ribs that are damaged or bruised. Rinse, place in a plastic bag, and keep in the refrigerator's humid vegetable bin, and it will last about two weeks. Be sure to keep celery away from the coldest sections of your refrigerator (the back and side walls), since celery freezes easily. Frozen celery stalks will be limp and watery when thawed. As with carrots, sprinkle or add water to the plastic bag to maintain the freshness of the celery. Cut celery (unwashed), stored in well-sealed plastic bags, will last about three days. Celery can be stored refrigerated in a plastic bag for 7-10 days.

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