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UNIT 1 - HEALTH EDUCATION
Healthy Eating / Food safety
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We should always buy food that are sold under good hygienic conditions.
People should not consume food from bulged cans.
Germs multiply in food that has been exposed to the heat of the sun.
Abdominal pain and vomiting are not signs of food poisoning.
Great care must be taken to avoid food contamination.
a. Insert a tick [ ] for the true statement and a cross [ X] for the false statement in the
column next to it.
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Why you must not refreeze food for example meat
that has been thawed?
It is because when you thaw meat, germs start to grow
very quickly. If you freeze it again, it will have even more
bacteria when it thaws the second time.
Thawed foods should never be refrozen.
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Why it is not advised to buy foods sold by the
roadside?
Foods sold by the roadside get contaminated with dust
and smoke from exhaust fumes of vehicles. Very often
the vendor handles money and food with the same
hands. Food sold by the roadside is not safe to eat.
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Why it is not advisable to use the same knife to cut
raw food and cooked foods?
The germs from the raw food will move to the cooked
food through the knife.
This is known as cross contamination of food.
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