Contest| "Tools to Spark Culinary Inspiration #6"

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FOOD PRESERVATION

We all eat and need food to survive and stay alive hence food is any substance that we eat to make us healthy. We get the raw materials that we use in processing our food from the farm, river and forest. Examples of food from the farm are rice, potatoe, plantain, etc. Food from river includes sea animals like fish, crabs, oysters, etc. Food from forest are bush animals that can be eaten as meat.

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Have you ever put your cooked or raw food in the fridge before? That means you have preserved food before. Food preservation is that process of keeping your food safe over a period of time. We preserve our food so that it will not spoil quickly.

FIVE WAYS OF PRESERVING FOOD

There are several ways of preserving food but I will be discussing only five ways which includes:

CANNING:
I am sure you have purchased tin food before. Canning is the process of preserving food in a sealed container after you heat process the food. One popular food that can be preserved this way is tomato. Below is a section of canned food in a super market.

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REFRIGERATION:
This the of preserving food in a fridge or freezer. To use this method you need constant power supply to keep the refrigerator cool always.

SALTING:
This is the act of sprinkling salt on your food to prevent it from spoiling. Salt is a chemical that contain sodium chloride which works for preservation of food.

DRYING:
Drying is that act of removing liquid in a substance. Drying can be done using the sun, smoke or fire.

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STEAMING:
Steaming is the process of cooking food on low heat to preserve it from spoiling.

THE BEST WAY TO PRESERVE PERISHABLE FOOD

Perishable foods are foods that can easily decay or decompost, a good example of perishable food is fresh tomatoes.
For me, the best way of preserving perishable food is refrigeration as my first choice then steaming as second.

My reasons for saying refrigeration is the best way of preserving foods are:

  1. Canned foods usually contain high amount of dissolved salt which is harmful to our body tissues.

  2. Excess intake of salt can lead to bloating or swelling of the body parts especially in people that have kidney problem.

  3. In drying the quality of the food will reduce and there is high risk of contamination.

CONCLUSION

Eating freshly cooked food is better and healthier than eating preserved food beacause the chemicals in preserved food is not good for the body especially when it is consumed regularly.

Thank you @ninapenda for organizing this contest. I am inviting my friends @blessedbee @eluustanley @ukagod

Thanks for reading my post💕

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Hi @beevicsam,

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True, its always better to consume fresh food rather than preserved food.

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Thank you very much.

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Hello @beevicsam, you have written so well on this and I have learnt a valuable lesson, I will try to curtail my intake of can foods, because it is harmful to the body.
Thank you for the invitation, I will try and drop my point too.

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Thank you my friend. I will look forward to your point.

Hello dear, the photo you are using is not copyright free, maybe you can change it, there are many free photos that you can use such as pixabay, pexels, unsplash, freepik etc...

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Ok. Thanks for the observation. Please are you refering to all the pictures or a particular picture. If it is just one picture, help me identify it.
Thank you very much.

Its your first picture, there named i-stock

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Ok, thank you very much. I will effect changes immediately.

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Pls if u dont mind please can I get the link to this contest.thanks

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