Food poisoning, High Risk foods.

Food poisoning, as earlier mentioned in Food posioning and Thousand deaths is caused by eating contaminated food. Contaminated food? Yeah right! In spite of this, not all foods have equal potency of contamination.

Some foods are at a higher risk of food poisoning than others. This is because Food poisoning Bacteria can grow and multiply on some types of food more easily than others.

It is of 'popular' believe that foods like chicken and fish have very great tendency to do this. While this is true, there are some other 'over-looked' foods that possess even greater. These include:

• Raw and cooked meat, including poultry such as chicken and turkey, and foods containing these, such as casseroles, curries and lasagne.

• Dairy products, such as custard and dairy-based desserts like custard tarts and cheesecake.

• Eggs and egg products, such as quiche.
• Smallgoods such as hams and salamis.

• Seafood, such as seafood salad, patties, fish balls, stews containing seafood and fish stock.

• Cooked rice and pasta.

• Prepared salads like coleslaws, pasta salads and rice salads.

• Prepared fruit salads.

• Ready-to-eat foods, including sandwiches, rolls, and pizza that contain any of the foods above.

Contaminated food will usually look, smell and taste normal. So instead of avoid these foods, all you have to do is maintain very high standards of good hygiene, starting from the market, to your preparation, down to serving and even storage of food substances. For further information, please read:

• Symptoms and Prevention of Food Poisoning.

• Food poisoning culprits you should know.

REFERENCE:
BETTER HEALTH CHANNEL.