🥪 Keeping Food Safely

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🍎 Fresh Food

• Fresh food should be eaten or cooked quickly.

• If we leave food too long, it can:

  • 🥖 Get dry

  • 🥬 Become soft and bad

  • 🍞 Grow mould (germs)

• Bad food can make us sick 🤒

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🧊 Storing Food

• We keep food in the right place to stay safe:

  • ❄️ In the fridge (like milk, meat, vegetables)

  • 🌑 In a cool, dry, dark place

• Use closed containers to keep food fresh

• Good storage helps us not waste food

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🥫 Preserving Food

• Preserving means keeping food for a longer time

• We can preserve food by:

  • ❄️ Freezing

  • 🫙 Putting it in jars or tins

  • 🌬️ Drying or smoking

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😊 Remember

👉 Fresh food is best when it is new and clean
👉 Store food the right way to stay healthy and safe

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Mr. Amir Salih—Social Studies—Environmental