FOOD HYGIENE

FOOD HYGIENE

A hygienic food is clean and not contain any harmful substance. The foods that are sold at outside are not clean and may be contaminated. Therefore,

Do not buy foods that are sold at outside.
Food should have the production permission. Always read the “use by” date of the foods at the label. If the “use by” date passed do not buy that food.

If the foods are not kept in good conditions it can be spoiled, nutrients losses can occur and threaten our health.

Do not forgot foods such as milk, meat and egg on the kitchen counter and keep them into the
fridge immediately.

Do not put your foods on to warm places such as radiators.

Do not forget to put foods like egg, milk, yogurt and cooked foods in to fridge and do not keep them more than two hours in the room temperature.

Do not prepare uncooked and cooked foods together. In this way we can prevent contamination
of bacteria from uncooked foods to cooked foods.

Wash your vegetable and fruit for a long time in water.

Be sure that your meal has cooked well.
High temperature kills bacteria easily.
Don’t leave foods which you cannot eat any more than two hours on the table and put them into fridge.

Do not keep the door of the fridge open for a long time.

If you have meal at the school be sure that your plate, fork and cup would be
clean.

What Should We Do In Case of a Food Poisoning?

What Should We Do In Case of a Food Poisoning?

The symptoms of the food poisoning are the stomachache, vomiting, diarrhoea. In such cases it is
wrong not to eat anything to stop vomiting and diarrhoea.
To control the diarrhoea;

- Consume more clean drinking water, beverages such as ayran (diluted yogurt with salt),
fresh apple juice,
- Eat yogurt, rice, boiled
potatoes,
- And rest.

If you suspect that if a food is contaminated you should never taste and eat that food. Do not
forget: The bacteria cause sypmtoms like stomach ache, diarrhoea, vomiting. Contaminated food can not be seen by naked eye and they do not smell different.

What Should You Do To Protect Yourself From Food Poisoning?

You should be careful about personal, food and utensil hygiene .

Personal Hygiene

As we mentioned, the most important agent that contaminate foods is human. You should be careful for your personel hygiene.

How Bacteria Contaminate the Foods?

How Bacteria Contaminate the Foods?

Before consuming foods some harmful substances can contaminate them and so the foods would be polluted. Bacteria have to need an agent to contaminate foods. Those agents are particularly human and animals.

Beside, dust, chunk, insects, rodents and other animals, garbage, dirty objects and surfaces,
garments are the other agents that contaminate the food.

Human is the main source of many harmful bacteria especially human’s;

- skin that injured or sored,
- hair, facial hair and clothes,
- snot and saliva,
- dirty hands.

Bacteria can contaminate the foods by the way known as the “cross contamination ”. Throughout “cross contamination” bacteria can contaminate foods as follows:

dirty kitchen utentils, dirty hands,
cutting boards,
kitchen worktables,
coughing, sneezing and sputum

FOOD and NUTRIENTS

FOOD and NUTRIENTS

Foods can be divided in to two groups accordig to their sources:

1- Animal origin foods: Milk, egg,cheese, meat, chicken, fish etc.

2- Vegetable origin foods: fruits, vegetables, rice, lentil, haricot, bean etc.

There are nutritious substances in each of those foods for your body. These materials are called nutrients. Nutrients are proteins, carbohydrate, fats, vitamins, minerals and water. The omposition of the body is those mentioned. We must eat these nutrients daily to keep on our organs working properly and making daily things to do well. The amount of food is also effects our health. Therefore, we should really be careful about the kind of quantity and safety food consumed daily.