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The low pH in acids retards the growth of bacteria by physically killing them. Bacteria tend to need a fairly high pH to propagate, and warm temperatures. Acidic foods -can- spoil, in bacterial and worse ways (botulinum, for example) but the acid provides a strong buffer for foods, especially low pH acids like citric, acetic, phosphoric and glutamic.
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