Sanitation and food hygiene are very important to us. It is thanks to them that we remain healthy and avoid many unpleasant situations. What is food hygiene? In fact, it is a set of specific rules that help us avoid various kinds of infectious diseases and food poisoning.
Hygiene of food is based on the fact that products, if stored improperly, quickly deteriorate. The use of such products will lead to a number of serious troubles.
The rules of food hygiene oblige us to wash not only food, but also hands and dishes. The fact is that there are many microbes around us. They are found in food, clothing, in water, in air, and so on. Their reproduction is very fast. Certain microorganisms produce strong poisons. These poisons are called toxins. Often people start having problems due to the fact that they are faced with yeast, mold, or some kind of bacteria.
Mold fungi are the simplest microorganisms that appear on cheese, meat, sweets, and so on. They grow well in warmth, darkness, quickly develop in places where the air is humid, do not tolerate light and heat. In humid places, they develop faster, but may appear where bacteria and mold seem too damp to the yeast.
Mold can easily cause food poisoning. Food hygiene provides for various preventive measures that can prevent mold from entering the body. First of all, we recommend visually inspecting what you eat (mold in most cases is visible to the eye), and also store food only in the cold and not for too long.
Yeast fungi are unicellular microorganisms. They can appear on foods that contain moisture, as well as sugar. Too sweet, but not very liquid products, due to their reason, are fermented. Yeast spoils food too quickly.
Yeast has one amazing ability: When it processes sugar, it gives off pure alcohol. For this reason, they are used in the production of beer, as well as wine.
Food hygiene contains rules to protect foods from such fungi. Some liquid foods are recommended to boil. In general, any food should be stored in the refrigerator.
Food hygiene distinguishes between two types of bacteria. This division is based on their relationship to food. Bacteria are useful as well as unwholesome (harmful). Useful are used by people for the production of dairy products. Harmful bacteria spoil food. They can cause severe poisoning, infectious diseases and so on.
Bacteria do not move independently. There are several possible ways to get them into food. They can get on it with hands, with water, with air. Bacteria can be carried by birds, domestic and wild animals. Of course, insects are their peddlers.
Bacteria multiply by division. Under favorable conditions, this division occurs every twenty minutes. What are the favorable conditions in this case? It is warm, suitable environment, moisture.
Bacteria multiply faster in some foods than others. We are talking about milk, as well as dairy products, soups and broths, egg products, as well as those foods that were prepared by hand. Bacteria actively breed in the food that was warmed up after cooking.
Bacteria are not able to multiply on dry food.
Food hygiene is based on maintaining cleanliness in places of eating, proper storage and preparation of food, the need to wash hands and so on. Food poisoning is a serious matter. It is not always difficult to avoid it.