Showing posts with label cooking safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cooking safety. Show all posts

Saturday, May 3, 2025

How to avoid food-borne illness – a nutritionist explains

  Summer means cookouts, picnics, and backyard barbecues. But a generous spread of food eaten outside raises some serious health questions. Nobody wants food poisoning – or to make their guests sick. But how do you know when you’ve kept the potato salad or fruit medley out too long?

  As a professor and chair of the Food Science and Human Nutrition program at Iowa State University, I’ll answer those questions by starting with the basics of food safety.