woah, what happened here?

i work in a home for disabled, so we have to puree everything for those who cant handle chewing. this morning i was prepping stuff for the lunches and was pureeing beets. usually i reserve the juice from the can and add it back in as needed to puree it but i accidentally dropped the juice losing it. so instead i used the juice from the next thing i was doing: peas. (beets and peas were both canned, btw.)

heres where it got a bit wacky. for some reason, instead of pureeing nicely like it usually does, with the juice from the peas it started foaming up, coming out of the top of the food processor. it made a huge mess (which i cleaned up ofc) and once portioned out it was noticeably lighter than usual from the air which had been incorporated.

so the question is, why did this happen? whats in the juice from the peas that would cause it to foam up like that? its odd, because when i puree peas they dont foam like that.

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Chris_Young_80640

That looks like some kind of acid / base reaction going on. What ingredients are listed on the back of each can?

Daniel_Levy_59584

ah, thats a thought. both taste relatively neutral, so i didnt even think of that, i was thinking it was something to do with the starch from the peas or something like that. ill have to check the ingredients tomorrow. dunno about the peas, though, i think that was our last can of that brand. might be another buried in the back, though.

Daniel_Levy_59584

unfortunately, i was right, that was the last can of that brand, in fact it was our last can of peas at all. i had to go next door to our other building to find a can of peas. they didnt have that brand either, but they had a different one. i would imagine that the ingredients would be similar for both, tho theres no guarantee. the ingredients on the one we had are cooked dry peas, water, sugar, salt, and calcium chloride.

for the beets, again neither building had the same exact thing anymore. we had the same brand, but only the diced beets not the salad sliced beets. (although this happened with a mix of both, 90% sliced, 10% sliced.) the diced beets are pretty simple, just beets, water, and salt, so i cant imagine the sliced are all that different.