What will cause a salad to wilt and turn into a squishy and sometimes flattened dish?

_________________ is one of the reasons the dish may become soggy, flattened and wilt. Cold salads, ones not usually containing lettuce should not sit out, without being on ice, for more than___ hours as it is in the temperature danger zone.

1.keeping the ingredients cool
dressing the salad too early
using a thick dressing

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culinary arts