You are presented with the question "What does salting food do to it?" and the following answer choices: 
- decrease stamina
 - evaporation
 - hydration
 - Preserves it
 - Causes bacteria to spread
 - chemical changes
 - Causes it to rot
 - Cooks it

Now knowing that dehydrating food is used for preserving food and foods usually were covered with copious quantities of salt or saturated salt brine, and the salt was allowed to infuse into the tissue while dehydrating the product, choose the best answer.


 

    Preserves it     