Introduction  
  What is food?  
  What happens to the food we eat?  
Our nutrient needs  
  Energy balance  
  Nutritional status  
  Laws & labels  
  Additives & colours  
  Toxicity in food  
  Processing food  
  Stability of food nutrients  
  Storage life of foods  
  Food- associated health problems

- FIGURE 38 -
IMPORTANT TEMPERATURES IN
FOOD PREPARATION

Physical
Events:
Microbial
Events

   
water boils    
    most
microbes
are
destroyed
in this
region
 
 
 
 
     
    slow growth
     
     
   
     
     
    rapid
growth
hot day
     
normal room
temperature
  slow
growth
     
refrigerator    
 
water freezes   food poisoning
microbes are
dormant but
multiply on
reaching
warmer
temperatures
 
 
Freezer
 
     
     
       

 

Food Facts
- How to avoid food poisoning
- Food sensitivities
- Migraine and food
- The Feingold diet and hyperkinesis
- Average serving sizes
Figures:
38:Important temperatures in food preparation
39: How to avoid food poisoning
40: Symptoms sometimes due to food allergy
41: Foods commonly responsible for allergy
42: Foods commonly reported as causing migraine
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