As part of our work on mummification, we mummified tomatoes! We followed the mummification process, which uses salts and oils to preserve the body.
The idea is that the salt mixture dehydrates the tomato. The microbes that cause decay need water to do their job, so dehydrating the tomato slows down the process of decay!
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