The science of the ideal salad dressing

  • Written by: Nathan Kilah, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Tasmania
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Summer means salads. And salads are even more delicious with a good dressing.

Most salad dressings are temporarily stable mixtures of oil and water known as emulsions.

But how do salad dressing emulsions form? And how can we enhance our emulsions for better salads and more?


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