Food

Consumer food preference

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:18:30 +0000

Consumer food preferences and expectations related to food characteristics are different than they were just a few decades ago. As aging populations increase, they include more immune suppressed and chronically ill persons who are more sensitive to food borne illnesses and their consequences. Modern advances in medical treatments improve human survival rates from various illnesses but are also associated with increasing numbers of people with reduced immunity to infection. As a consequence, it is logical that food safety risks become even greater and more acute for consumers who are more sensitive to microbial infection. Thus, ongoing microbial evolution, coupled with societal changes including consumer food preferences, lack of adequate food-handling education, increases in at-risk human populations, complex food distribution patterns, increased international trade, and better methods of testing for microbial detection, bring microbial food safety to the forefront of our societal concerns. These developments have certainly increased interest in food safety among scientists, regulatory officials, industry, and public health agencies at the national and international level, especially as they become of more interest to news-reporting media and public-interest groups. This increased publicity leads to public awareness, concern, and more interest in food safety issues worldwide. The result is increased pressure on the private and public sectors to accelerate efforts that may lead to enhanced microbial food safety.

Healthy Life

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:17:20 +0000

Living healthy is most important to lead our life without worries and food is the main player to it. Heat diet will keep us away from various diseases, increases our stamina, controls our weight, etc. The exact combination and amount of food to maintain our body will vary from person to person. As a basis, one may follow a meal centred on carbohydrates and also consume moderate amount of proteins. Lowering sugar, salt, and fat is always welcome. So the first step on building the health pyramid is to take food with carbohydrates. These are foods that contain starch or natural sugar, includes bread, breakfast cereals, pasta, rice, grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables and low fat dry biscuits. Remember to take carbohydrate, which is slow to digest. The centre part is to consume moderate amounts of meat, fish, eggs, and dairy foods. These are rich in proteins, which the body uses for growth and repair. The third need is iron. This is obtained from low fat dairy food. Sugar and salt can be through cakes, biscuits, fatty meats, chocolates, etc. Alcohol also can be taken occasionally. Eat not more than thrice a day. With this as a regular pattern we can lead a healthy life.

spices

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:17:10 +0000

Spices are used widely to add flavour to our dishes, but they also have some nutritive value. Spices increase the taste and smell of food and make one hunger for it. India is the largest exporter of spices with 2.4lakh tons every year. Spices are not only used individually but also used as mixtures called curry powders. They are thought to contribute least to the nutrition but the reality is to they include some good characteristics. Spices have a considerable amount of proteins, vitamins and dietary fibre. Consumption of high fat diet leads to heart diseases and also increases the risk of atherosclerosis. Some of the common spices are found to cure this problem to a great extent. These include turmeric, garlic, red pepper, garlic, etc. And most notably spices have the powerful potential to act as anti diabetic. Garlic and onion are the main ingredients to cure diabetes mellitus. Spices are the best digestive stimulant than anything. Any food can be taken with spices with firm trust of digestion. Antioxidant is also the characteristic of spices. The anti oxidation property of cur cumin is researched, and it found to reduce 33 percent of blood lipid peroxide levels. However consuming spices above a certain limit will have adverse effects on growth and weight.

Food spoilage

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:48:41 +0000

When the nature content of the food is spoiled like its flavor, taste, color and texture due to the micro organisms then the food could get spoiled. The foods could be fresh for certain hours only. The food spoilage could occur when the moisture in them gets low and the enzymes present in the food undergoes chemical reaction after few hours this cause the food spoilage in them. The important action that is done by the oxidation occurs in the food, the food comes in contact of the direct oxygen they cause the destruction of some nutrients in them. Sometimes the enzymes causes the food browning in them, this happens when the food is exposed to air directly that could be seen in the fruits like apples. The next action is the ripening that is seen in the fruits and vegetables the unripe fruits get ripened due to the enzymes present in them. When they get over ripened they turn to brown color then they could be not fit for eating. According to the food type the spoilage of food also differs in them. The people should keep the food in well protected way so that they don’t get spoiled easily they could preserve them from that.

Frozen food

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:47:46 +0000

The food has been persevering by the people for their future use; they could get some kind of natural disaster so the preserved food could be useful for them. Some foods could be kept in room temperature and they could not be spoiled. But some foods could get spoiled in the room temperature. So the people have either frozen them or dry them. Many foods are frozen by the people so that they could use them in the future. The people could keep the food in minus zero degrees Celsius so that the foods are not spoiled. When the food is stored in freezing temperature the micro organisms could not grow in them. This method of storing food is seen from the ancient days. The people could take them when they want them to cook the food. Today in markets people could get the frozen foods that are ready to eat for them. The people could get them and eat without cooking but some foods have to be heated before eating since it does not taste well when they eat them raw. The frozen foods usually contain high contents of vitamin c in them when compared to other minerals in them.

Italian pizza

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:46:38 +0000

The Italian pizza is the best pizza in the world, they prepare them with the flour and they could have different types of toppings in them. The bread is the very important one in the pizza it should be cooked in correct for when they are overcooked, or under cooked the taste of the pizza could not be nice. The people could use round shaped bread that is cooked to the golden brown color and when they add the butter to the bread they could be very well in color. The toppings of the pizza contain mainly cheese in them this gives the taste to the pizza they could add some types of butter and vegetables in them. When they add the peppers like yellow peppers, red peppers it could like colorful and they could have an extra flavor to the pizza. TheItalyis the birth place of the pizza this was used as the snacks for them but this snack has been liked by the people, the chewy taste of them is liked by the people. When the friends get together they order them pizza and cool drinks to their chit chat. Thus the Italian pizza are spread o the nuke and corner of the world.

Kebabs

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:46:26 +0000

Kebabs are the tastiest food that is cooked in the heat of the charcoal; there is a special type of stove that is made by the mud. They could withstand more heat in them. First to prepare the kebabs they have to first magnate the meat or some people could use the vegetables in them. After meat is absorbs the essence in the magnate they could be fixed on the iron rod and they keep that rod in the mud stove. They could leave them for more than half an hour so that the meat and vegetables get cooked. The tastes of them are very excellent since they could be very well cooked in the natural way. The kebabs are the main dish of the Arab people. But now this food is spread all over the world and there are more chefs found in the world who are expert in the kebabs cooking. The people go in search for the good food they could find them and enjoy them. The kebabs are the best food item for the non-vegetarian food lovers, since they get them in different taste and they use different meats to prepare them and each have different taste in them.

Food as medicine

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:43:24 +0000

In early days when the medicines where not found they used the food as the medicine. There are many herbs found all over the forest that have the medicinal value in them. When one is sick they could get the herbs and they could crush them and take the juice of them and give them to the sick people. When they drink that juice they could fell better. When a person is badly wounded they could grids the herbs into paste and apply them to the wounds so that it don’t cause any fuss in them. the people have to follow the strict diet so that they get well soon, while the people are wounded they should take only the food with less salt and they don’t add oil to their foods, mostly they could take the raw foods so that their wounds could heel faster. The food is very important one to the people when this acts as a medicine it’s very healthy to the people, this medicine could not cause any side effects in them and they could be very healthy. The people should try to follow this food method so that they could be healthy and be faster recovering from their diseases.

Non-perishable food

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:42:34 +0000

Non- perishable foods are the foods that could be kept for many days they could not get spoiled at room temperature. These foods are usually dried foods that can be kept for months. Example for the no-perishable foods is dry fish. The foods are dried in the sun and they are seasoned with lot of salt so that they could be used for future. The micro organism in the food is killed by either of the methods like pickling, salting and drying. But while the people store this kind of food they should be very careful if one drop water falls in then they could be of no use. So the people should be very careful in this storing method. While people use this type of food they could get good taste in their food before cooking the food they should try to boil them well so that the salt content is removed and they taste better. In early days man followed this method since they could not get meats often, so while they hunt any animals they could dry the meat in sunlight and then they could use them in their meals. This is traditional method of storing of food and it’s followed still now in many foods.

Perishable food

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:41:51 +0000

The food that is easily spoiled is known as the perishable foods, foods like fruits, vegetables, milk and meat could get spoiled within one day when they are kept in the room temperature. The people should take the perishable foods freshly so that they get all the nutrients from the food very freshly. But the foods could be stored in the refrigerator so that they could keep them for weeks, but while they store them they should properly cover them else they could easily spoiled. So it’s better to use the perishable foods fast and stay healthy. The people should take only the perishable foods when compared to the junk foods or the packed foods. When they take the junk foods they could get many health problems but when they take the perishable food items they could be healthy and have better health in their family. The perishable foods help the people to build their immune system in them. When the immune system is the body is strong then they could fight against the diseases easily, but when they don’t have proper immune system in their body they could easily get affected to common cold itself so people should be careful in eating food so that they could stay healthy.