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The action is part of the "Your summer without problems"
With the arrival of summer, from the Department of Markets, Consumer Affairs and Decentralization, which directs Christopher Smith, and to work together we all enjoy your holidays safer and healthier has launched a consumer information campaign under the slogan " Your summer without problems, "with which they want to give some advice on issues related to the summer:
Food and summer, what to eat
Summer is a proper season to travel, enjoy the holiday on the beach, mountains or places that predispose us to sample the cuisine of the place, making it easier to commit excesses in food and drink.
the council offers the following tips when eating properly:
- Consume fresh fruits and vegetables in a salad, cold soups
or natural juices, you bring liquids, minerals, antioxidants and
vitamins.
- Drink at least two liters of water a day.
Prevent abuse of carbonated soft drinks with high sugar and stimulants.
- Children and pregnant women should not eat based drinks
exciting plant extracts (extracts of coffee or tea).
- When replacing the water thirst for cold drinks with alcohol.
- Do not be dazzled by junk food because it has little value
nutrition and calories.
- Opting for a varied and balanced diet such as the Mediterranean.
From the Department recommended healthy eating:
- Number of Meals: 5 meals is recommended per day (breakfast,
brunch, lunch, snack and dinner), in order to avoid long
periods of fasting.
- Ways to cook: avoids fried breaded, precooked and
cooking methods that include large amounts of oil or other fat.
Recommended dishes grilled, boiled, roasted, and so on.
- Characteristics of the diet: the diet must be varied (including
foods from all groups to ensure an adequate supply of
nutrients), balanced (the nutrients provided in the quantities
recommended) and appropriate (adapted to the physical and psychological conditions of each person).
- Include in the diet at least 5 servings of fruits or vegetables
day.
- Making physical activity: a long healthy eating
must be accompanied by a physical activity tailored to the needs
individual to obtain optimal health.
How and where to purchase:
- Make a weekly menu and a list of ingredients that you
need.
Do not go shopping hungry, and to buy more than you need.
- When you go shopping, do it in places dedicated to that activity
assessing the hygienic aspect of the premises and food handlers.
Normally the cleaning staff who care and the establishment
also strives to serve or sell food of good quality.
- Buy frozen foods at the end of the purchase and return to
home in the shortest possible time.
Always keep the cold chain.
- Reject products that are above the line
load of refrigerated cabinets.
A showcase overloaded prevents air to circulate around the products and makes cooling.
- Check the product in that the container should be whole and not
present cracks, dents or any other problems that may affect the product.
- If it is to look out for canned goods that can not
is rusty, bulging or blows.
- Food packaging must be properly identified
by tags and those that are unpacked, placed so that they are outside the scope of the public or protected through closets or cabinets.
What information must appear on the label in general:
- Name of the product so that they are clearly
what product is about.
- List of ingredients: Quantity of product in the container (weight and volume solids to liquids).
Canned vegetables, drained weight).
- Marking of Dates: best before / expiry date
- How to use: so that the consumer knows the process
should continue to consume the product properly.
- Storage conditions
- Company identification
- Block that owns the product.
Hygiene in the storage and handling
In the summer period are most often infections and
foodborne illness whose main symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting.
In general, its origin is found in foods that have not undergone proper preparation or preservation.
We offer some tips to avoid this problem:
How to keep food-
- Keep your fridge between 0 ° and 5 ° C.
- To freeze must have a four star freezer.
- Never put cooked food with raw.
Make sure you enter the food in the fridge are adequately protected and will not pollute the rub.
- Always follow the manufacturer's instructions, in case of canned food.
- Refrigerated products must be kept at temperatures of 0 º -5 º C and frozen and deep frozen at temperatures below -18 º C.
- Pay special attention to foods made with egg
crude (custards, puddings ...) consumed within 24 hours
maximum.
Mayonnaise-type sauces, better industrial urtilizarlas.
- Do not thaw at room temperature but never in the fridge
day before or if you do not have enough time, use the
microwave.
Tips when eating / tapas away
- All public catering establishment must be available
the public the list price or letter, sealed by the Regional
Tourism should be visible, both inside and outside
the establishment, and legible.
It must be outlined all
Prices of dishes, all kinds of drinks and tapas.
- All foods are exposed (tapas, tapas ....)
must be protected by a glass cabinet and easy dishes
pollution (salads, sandwiches, eggs ..) to be the day, as well as fresh seafood.
You refuse to eat that are exposed to local pollution and customers:
- In bars, cafes and restaurants is not advisable to consume
Food exposed to the public outside protective windows should be
If refrigerated perishables.
- The room must be clean and healthy and have at least one service
separately for men and women.
- Staff should be friendly, fast and efficient, well groomed, no
smoking or cough on food and have properly covered the
wounds if any.
They must also be in possession of the card
food handler.
- You must clear the issuing of invoices (upon request
consumer) with a breakdown of all concepts and intelligible writing.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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