There is a watermelon in the refrigerator that will break if you don’t eat it! Xiao Wang, eat it quickly!
Huh? Why haven’t you finished the leftovers the day before yesterday? Xiao Wang’s father, take them out and eat them!
It’s too hot in summer. It’s good to mix the green beans in the water. The potato has sprouted too. Peel and eat it quickly!
Xiao Wang’s family, pawn.
You may not believe it. The place where food poisoning is highest is not a small restaurant on the street, not a late-night food stall, not a dark Sashido, but:
One’s own home
In 2015, the State Health and Planning Commission issued a circular on food poisoning incidents across the country. The results showed that the number of reported food poisoning incidents and deaths occurred in families were the highest, with the highest case fatality rate of 7.9%.
Sounds terrible!
Today, we will invite food safety professionals to talk about the food in the family.
Leftovers, this is how to deal with
In summer, there will be more leftovers. Many people like to put them into the refrigerator without sealing, or put them into the refrigerator after the rice is cooled. In fact, such practices often bring health risks.
Judging whether the leftovers have deteriorated or not, we can observe whether the rice has changed color and hardened: stir it with chopsticks. If it is found to be sticky, it smells a little sour and smelly, and it is basically not edible.
The meat in the leftovers is actually better stored than fresh meat, but the vegetables in the leftovers are different: to judge whether the vegetables have deteriorated, one can directly look at the degree of discoloration of the vegetables. Once the vegetables turn yellow, black and dark, one should not eat them again.
The key points for preserving leftovers are: proper blowing and cooling, sealing in boxes, and storage on the inner wall of the refrigerator.
The key points of eating leftovers are: full heating, full heating, full heating!
If you want to make new leftovers, first use the microwave oven to fully heat the leftovers, then put them into the pan and stir-fry the new dishes.
Be careful of food deterioration
In addition to leftovers, the summer weather is hot, bacteria are more likely to breed, and food will deteriorate faster.
Don’t think that food that goes bad a little bit, eating [diarrhea at most], many food poisoning caused by eating bad food, can really put people’s lives in danger.
For example, the following things must not be eaten if they deteriorate:
- Sprouted potatoes: Solanine content is extremely high, Removal of germinated parts or long-term heating cannot effectively remove solanine. Moldy corn, wheat and peanuts: Fusarium and Aspergillus flavus are susceptible to mildew and deterioration, producing vomiting toxins and aflatoxins, so grains must be discarded once they go moldy. Ice cream with peculiar smell: Although it is often frozen in a low temperature environment, it is also problematic if frozen for a long time, because there is a bacterium called Listeria, which can survive in extremely low temperatures.
The safest method: look at the shelf life,
Packaged foods will have a shelf life, which is the deadline set by manufacturers after a series of experiments. Generally, unopened foods stored in a specified environment can ensure stable properties before the shelf life, thus causing low possibility of food poisoning.
The opened food cannot be eaten out, so it is best to seal it again in time. However, the shelf life of the food after opening will be shortened accordingly.
Of course, more importantly, attention should be paid to purchasing food in summer:
Eat as you buy and observe before eating.
Vegetables
Try to buy vegetables and fruits on the same day and eat them on the same day. When saving, pay attention to remove the yellowed or damaged parts first.
Green rhizome vegetables do not need to be wrapped and sealed and stored in the refrigerator, but sealing will accelerate their corruption process.
Meat and eggs
Meat should be put into the frozen layer as soon as possible after being bought back. Before eggs are put into the refrigerator, they can be immersed in hot water for a few minutes to close the micropores on the eggshell.
Before eating, you should also pay attention to whether the meat shows signs of deterioration:
If the new cut surface is moist and sticky water overflows when cutting meat, it indicates that bacteria have probably decomposed the meat tissue, so don’t eat it at this time.
- Judging the freshness of meat: good luster, not sticking to hands when touched, elastic in finger pressure, and no obvious foul smell. Judging the freshness of fish: see that the eyes are not sunken and the eyes are clear and not turbid. Judging the freshness of eggs: see the size of the air chamber, light transmission or floating method can be used. If eggs float on the water, don’t eat them.
Avoid these 3 traps
Step 1 Try not to eat raw food
The high incidence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus food poisoning in coastal areas in summer is mainly due to raw seafood or incomplete heating.
There are also some partners who like to eat raw eggs or boiled water to wash eggs. In fact, raw eggs often contain salmonella, with a carrier rate of about 40%, and eating raw eggs will affect the absorption of vitamin B7!
There are also some vegetables that are risky to eat raw. For example, green beans need to be cooked completely. Fresh day lily and ginkgo should also be blanched with boiling water before cooking.
2. Try not to eat [homemade] food
In recent years, many consumers are interested in [farmhouse-made] [hand-made] food, and often buy such food including self-brewing and farmhouse oil extraction.
However, the summer temperature is relatively high, home-brewed wine and fruit wine are prone to flora infection, and the probability of food poisoning is high.
There is no condition for strict detection of aflatoxin B1 content in farmers’ own oil extraction or family workshops, so it is not recommended to buy and eat it.
3. Don’t believe in any way to identify poisonous mushrooms
Please don’t trust any method to identify poisonous mushrooms, because they are all capital and unreliable.
Finally, for uncertain food, the way to deal with it is to throw it! Throw it! Throw it!
Many people do not like [waste] and think that food suspected of deterioration will be eaten for at most a few days without anything else. In fact, if food poisoning is caused by this, the consequences will be much more serious than acute gastroenteritis.
Therefore, once diarrhea is not good for a few days, or other symptoms such as bloody stool, fever, muscle weakness and so on occur, you must go to the hospital in time.
The most important thing is, don’t worry about waste. In case of food poisoning, it is a waste of your health, time and energy, isn’t it?