"Refrigerator with food poisoning," frequent summer strain need appropriate

Summer easy reproduction of bacteria, in order to keep the food fresh healthy, people prefer food preservation is put into the refrigerator to store, in effect preserving function and refrigerator than people imagine the ideal, blindly rely on refrigerator will cause of food poisoning "refrigerator".

Believe members of "food poisoning" refrigerators are not well understood, the following, the following is your introduction to the causes of food poisoning in the fridge as well as summer refrigerator strain method to get you to summer diet health troubles.

"Refrigerator" high risk of food poisoning can be induced meningitis

Each year, June to August, is a high incidence of acute gastroenteritis in season, in fact, the crisis is hidden in our daily use of the refrigerator.

Bacteria in the hot summer especially active, often with our hands and bought food into the refrigerator.

Refrigerator storage room temperature is generally 0 ℃-7 ℃, this temperature for most bacteria breeding inhibition significantly, delay food spoilage of time, but do not kill bacteria. Raw food, even if put in the refrigerator will also continue to metabolism, produce toxic metabolites.

Part of the hobby and cold environment of bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus, etc in the fridge is still very active, they continue to multiply and accelerate food spoilage.

The "hidden" in the fridge is a very powerful psychrophile-Listeria infection after mild diarrhea, fatigue, nasal congestion, often mistaken for a cold. For resistance to weak elderly, children and immunodeficiency crowd, diarrhoea while also can cause meningitis.

Remove from refrigerator carrying food, if you do not thoroughly cooked edible after sterilization, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dizziness and other symptoms, this is people don't know the ' fridge ' food poisoning.

6 tips to prevent food poisoning "refrigerator"

1. the food into the box before don't clean

Some people love the clean, clean food habits, even after cleaning with germicidal detergent and then put in the refrigerator, in fact, the fruit and vegetables and egg surface has its own layer of strain "protective film", after the protective film washed, but contribute to bacterial invasion food, accelerated food spoil.

If you find that fruits and vegetables, eggs and other epidermal have dirt, you can use a cloth, bags and then put in the refrigerator.

2. don't put tropical fruits and vegetables in the fridge

Fruits and vegetables, mango, banana, lemon, litchi, tropical fruits, it is best not to put in the fridge, or else they would be "frostbite" accelerate their degeneration.

The most common summer fruit watermelon, best buy is now eating, from refrigerators to take out the best cut off after exposure to the air of melon meat.

3. the raw food separate

Sausage, roast chicken and cooked meat products, together with after opening the bag directly into the fridge, so not only will give the environment pollution, refrigerator and will accelerate its modification, can be placed in the savers.

In addition, raw fish raw meat or savers, stored in the freezer compartment.

4. the fridge Cook food thoroughly before eating

In General, the heating for over 5 minutes, the basic food of pathogenic bacteria can kill.

5. boxed, bottled food within two days after opening after eating

Tins, bottles, cans, Tetra Pak cartons, vacuum packaging of a variety of beverages, dairy products, meat, poultry, eggs, food, the best instant consumption after opening.

If the remaining storage refrigerators, should finish eating in a day or two.

6. pasta don't sealed bag

Bread, pastry, pasta, you should mount food bags and then put into the refrigerator storage room, but Pocket don't tie die.

Because in a sealed environment anaerobic bacteria will multiply, easy breeding mildew, bacteria that cause bad, bad.

(Edit: Justin Lin, internships)