Contents:
- Medical Video: Top 5 Food Safety Tips to Keep Your Family Safe | Food Hygiene
- 1. Wash hands with soap
- 2. Wash fruits and vegetables
- 3. Separate foods that are easily contaminated with bacteria or viruses
- 4. Cook with the right temperature
- 5. Store food in the refrigerator
- 6. When can I throw away food?
Medical Video: Top 5 Food Safety Tips to Keep Your Family Safe | Food Hygiene
Cooking activities are fun. Starting from the cooking process to eating it. However, do you know if the kitchen can be a place for the spread of disease? Especially diseases related to food or commonly referred to as food borne disease. This can happen if your food is contaminated with bacteria, viruses, or parasites. As a result, you can experience poisoning that is characterized by diarrhea, vomiting, or fever. This is the importance of maintaining your food and kitchen cleanliness. Here are tips on maintaining cleanliness in the kitchen when cooking, which you can check.
1. Wash hands with soap
Before you touch food or food ingredients, you need to wash your hands with soap, especially after touching raw food, trash cans, pets, and going to the toilet. This is important to ensure that your hands are free of germs before cooking or eating.
Harmful bacteria can spread very easily from the hands to food and cooking utensils. In addition to hand washing to ensure hand hygiene, you can use plastic gloves when cooking. Especially if you have a cold or diarrhea.
When you sneeze or cough suddenly when cooking, you need to cover your mouth and nose. If you close it by hand, you need to wash your hands again with soap. If you do have the flu, you need to use a mask when cooking to avoid spreading the virus that causes coughs and colds on the food you prepare.
2. Wash fruits and vegetables
Washing fruit and vegetables with cold water before you process them, including peeling fruits and vegetables, can help remove the dirt on the food. Wash fruits and vegetables with clean running water for several minutes before processing or serving.
3. Separate foods that are easily contaminated with bacteria or viruses
Foods such as raw meat including poultry can contain harmful bacteria spread easily on whatever it touches. Moreover, food and cooking equipment such as knives, cutting boards, and others. Therefore, you need to separate raw food ingredients, especially raw meat with ready-to-eat food to avoid cross contamination.
Tips:
- If possible, use cutting boards or cutting boards separately for raw meat and other food ingredients.
- Wash cutting boards, dishes, and cooking utensils with soap and water after coming into contact with raw meat, poultry or seafood.
- Never put food cooked on a plate that has just been used to use raw meat, poultry or seafood.
4. Cook with the right temperature
To ensure food hygiene, some types of ingredients need to be cooked at the right temperature in order to kill harmful bacteria. Here are some temperature rules for cooking food according to the health site WebMD.
- Grilled and grilled meat is at least 62 degrees Celsius.
- All poultry (chicken, turkey, duck) must be cooked to 73 degrees Celsius.
- Cook beef to at least 71 degrees Celsius.
- Cook the eggs until the egg yolks and white are cooked.
5. Store food in the refrigerator
Putting food in the refrigerator can prevent bacteria from growing and developing in food. Set the temperature of your refrigerator to keep it warmer than 4 degrees Celsius and freezer no warmer than -17 degrees Celsius.
Tips:
- Cool or freeze perishable food, ready food, and leftovers.
- Never melt cold or frozen food at room temperature. If you want to do it, you can soak the food with water in the refrigerator, under cold air, or at microwave.
- Keep the refrigerator not too full, to ensure the cool air of the refrigerator spreads optimally.
6. When can I throw away food?
You may throw away the food you want to cook if you are not sure how long the food has been stored, the food has smelled, or looks different than it should Also dispose of packaged foods that are past the product's expiration date.
Likewise, if cooked food has been mixed with raw food. This is done to maintain food cleanliness while avoiding bacterial infections that cause disease.
