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How To Ensure Proper Food Storage
How do you know that you are storing your food properly? This post will identify ways you can employ to ensure the proper storage of your food. When purchasing your food from the supermarket, check the expiry date. For canned…
How To Ensure A Clean Work Centre
A clean work centre is important to ensure safe food preparation and storage. Cleaning a kitchen ensures reduced incidences of food-borne illnesses and food spoilage, and less waste. Moreover, you will have more room to work with ,and easily access…
Starch And Its Applications In Cookery
In this post, the focus will be directed to starch and its applications in your cooking. Starch, especially modified starch is commonly used in the food industry but you can use in your cooking too. Starch serves various nutritional and…
How To Ensure Safety In Your Kitchen
Kitchen safety is essential due to the risks likely to occur that can cause injury or fire hazards. It is therefore important for you to integrate various safety measures to reduce risk. Ensure that you unplug cooking appliances when not…
Fortification Vs Enrichment
To enhance the nutrition quality of the various food items, several measures tend to be imposed. Among them being; Fortification, Enrichment and Supplementation. This post will explicitly distinguish these common terms and their significance to diet improvement. Programs targeted for…
Types of Dietary Fibres (Examples and Importance)
Dietary fibres can be categorized as either soluble fibres or insoluble fibres. Soluble Fibres Soluble fibres are viscous and form gels. They are also easily digested by bacteria in your stomach. They include: Mucilages-which are utilized as food additives to…
Milk Processing
In this post , we will focus on the various milk processing methods , and understand their critical role in ensuring milk quality. First , we should identify the different types of milk which are usually made trough either of…
What Is Gelatinization?(Factors That Affect Gelatinization)
What Is Gelatinization? Starch is found in various food sources including cassava, sorghum, maize, potatoes, wheat, barley, arrow roots etc. It is utilized for multiple food and industrial applications. It undergoes further processing through several mechanical and chemical methods to…
Dietary Recommended Intakes (RDIs)
In this post, we will define what Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) are and their use. Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) measures are reference standards utilized in the planning and assessment of diets. It covers an extensive range of nutrients. These reference…