How to choose ready-to-eat, ready-to-eat foods

In everyday life, ready-to-eat packaged foods have become one of the menu choices of consumers.

To help consumers choose ready-to-eat and ready-to-eat products to ensure food safety, consumers should note the following as recommended by the Food Safety Department (Ministry of Health):

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- The label must be considered with the following contents: Food name, Name and address of the merchant responsible for the goods, Quantities of the food, Composition, Main quality criteria, Production date export, expiry date, preservation period, preservation instructions, instructions for use, origin of goods.

- Need to buy in trusted stores: familiar, supermarkets . places of compliance to push all conditions of safe food business.

- Do not buy: In shops, shops, dust, dirt, wet, hot, sunny; In places where there is a mixed sale of impurities, chemicals, smelly products such as soap, washing powder, cosmetics . With soft drinks, fruits, fruits, milk . do not buy in places where there is no guarantee. cold storage, places sold in the sun, hot, wet, dusty, smoke, vapor, gas, near gasoline, oil, paint, chemical pesticides . .

* Instant food is a type of food that does not need to be cooked but can be used immediately, instant food other than fast food, ready-to-eat instant food such as instant noodles just to boil water to eat Right away, canned food just needs to be eaten immediately. As fast food, it is not necessary to reheat without boiling boiling water.

Canned is a method to preserve food by processing and handling in an atmosphere of anoxic atmosphere. Packing helps prevent microorganisms from entering and expanding inside.

To avoid making food broken in the process before and during storage, some methods have been used: bactericidal, cooked (and applications based on high temperatures), cold storage, closed ice, drying, vacuum, anti-microbial or preservative agents to maintain the original properties such as, sufficient radiation ionization, immersion in salt water, acid, base .