Facing the reality of storms and floods causing long flooding, the Department of Food Safety (Ministry of Health) guides preserving with family food groups.

3 family food groups

Fresh food

Fresh food can be stored in 3-5 days, families should buy pork, beef, chicken and then prepare and store ice cabinets.When needed, it can be defrosted, processed as usual.Vegetables should also choose the types that can be long.

People should buy 3-5 green vegetables such as vegetables, spinach, vegetables, gourds, squash to dry in a dry place.In the cool weather of rainy days, green vegetables can be left in the condition of the refrigerator for 2 days and in the refrigerator for up to 4-5 days.Fruits such as gourd, pumpkin, potatoes, carrots can leave outside up to 3-5 days.

With eggs, if stored properly, eggs can be up to 15-20 days.The eggs should be left in the main compartments of the cool compartment to maintain a stable temperature, fresh eggs longer.In addition, eggs should be kept in boxes to reduce the risk of breaking.

Dry food, instant food

People need to fully check rice, salt, fish sauce, soy sauce, cooking oil.Some types of dry food should be available on rainy days, including dried fish, instant noodles, boxes such as canned meat, canned fish, instant sausages, shrimps and bread, cakes, condensed milk.

If there is information about large and prolonged storms, you should prepare more bread, cakes and condensed milk in case the worst can not cook, there is still instant food.For canned foods, you should pay attention to the expiry date and arrange a reasonable diet for the family.

Drinking water

First families should take measures to store clean water in the tank, barrel, bucket of rooms in case of cutting water.In addition, there must be a lot of bottled water, bottled juice and canned milk.All are stored in a dry place so that when necessary, it can be easily used.Do not leave in places that are susceptible to flooded indoors.

For a person in a day, there should be at least 3 liters of water, or 45 liters of water for a family of four and it is better to store drinking water for at least three days to prevent emergency cases (Prevent the whole case you can't boil water).

How to store food

Check the refrigerator temperature

The refrigerator helps to extend the life of food in a short time, but the temperature in the refrigerator must be adjusted at an appropriate level.Studies say that if the refrigerator is too "warm", it will create a great environment for toxic bacteria to grow.The ideal refrigerator temperature is below 6 degrees Celsius. At this temperature range, foods will be safer to use.

During the power outage

When power outages, refrigerators and freezer (Freezer) must be completely closed to maintain cold temperatures.A freezer with food is full of food, if the door is tightly closed, it will keep the cold temperature about 48 hours, while if the cabinet contains only half of the food, keep the cold 24 hours.For the refrigerator, it is different, it only retains the cold about 4 hours after the power failure.

Four hours after the power outage, the damaged food must be discarded.Although these foods do not emit odors, they can still contain bacteria that bring disease to you, your family, especially for people with weak immune systems such as children, pregnant women and tall people.year old.

The following foods need to be removed: cooked meat or alive, fish, eggs, milk and milk products.At the same time, excess foods from the previous days, such as tuna, rice, pasta, lettuce, Dressing water should also pour away.

When there is electricity return

People need to see the food in the refrigerator is still fresh and safe to continue using it.If you leave a thermometer in the freezer and the temperature on the thermometer is still less than 4-5 ° C, your food can still be used.If you are more careful, you can check each package of food, if they still have ice tape or less than 4-5 ° C, you can continue to keep these food packages or cook.

The next step is that you have to remove the damaged foods in the refrigerator, freezer and clean the refrigerator.Once the temperature in the refrigerator lower below 4-5 ° C, you can put new foods into the cabinet.

When the house is flooded

Storms are often accompanied by floods and can pollute the water source.It is better for people to cook boiling water to cool or drink bottled water during this time.You do not eat foods with flooded water or food removed from barrels that are flooded.