How to preserve fresh food during Tet without losing nutrients?

During Tet, families often have the habit of buying a lot of food to store. Dried food seems easier, but preserving fresh food is a bit complicated.

Raw foods and cooked foods should be stored in separate containers with tight-fitting lids, in different compartments. Avoid leaving raw foods open near processed foods.

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Vegetables and fruits also need attention. They should not be stored together. If one of them is spoiled, it can easily damage the other. In addition, fruits are in the group that produces ethylene gas, which has the effect of ripening green vegetables, so if mixed, it will cause the vegetables to turn yellow and rot quickly.

How to preserve fresh food should be stored in the refrigerator

Fresh meat and fish need to be stored in the freezer to keep them for a long time. They need to be cleaned before being put into boxes or plastic bags, then sealed and stored in the freezer. When you need to prepare a dish, take it out, defrost it and use it.

Pork and beef must also be cleaned, wrapped in plastic wrap, rubbed with salted ginger, and wrapped in plastic wrap and stored in the refrigerator. When eaten, the meat will not be soggy.

Some long-lived species such as clams and crabs should be boiled first and the meat removed, then put in a box and refrigerated to be safer to keep alive.

If you have a large freezer, buy fresh seafood, wash it and freeze it. However, you should limit storing fresh seafood in the refrigerator because it does not stay fresh for long.

Fish meat for hotpot is cleaned of all bones, skinned, rubbed with ginger wine to make the meat white, clean of slime, and remove the fishy smell, then dried with paper towels. Then slice, marinate with spices, put in a box, and store in the freezer. One day before eating hotpot, put in the refrigerator to soften the fish, then defrost.

For onions and scallions, you need to pick them clean, wash them, drain them, and put them in a plastic bag. Buy enough tomatoes and cucumbers for salad, wash them, put them in a plastic bag, and put them in the vegetable compartment.

With herbs such as lettuce, endive, and cilantro, leave the roots intact, do not pick or wash them, put them in a plastic bag and put them in the refrigerator.

Wash the fruit, dry it, put it in a tightly tied plastic bag and keep it in the refrigerator. It will keep for many days.

Cooked food should be cooled completely, covered and stored in the refrigerator. Raw and cooked food should be stored in separate containers. Sealing will prevent food from drying out, from smelling, and from spreading germs to other foods.

Some foods should not be stored in the refrigerator.

Banh chung, banh tet, and sticky rice should not be stored in the refrigerator because they will become "rice-like". They should be stored in a cool place at room temperature.

It is recommended not to store sausages in the refrigerator, because cooling them too much will cause the fat in the sausage to freeze, making them taste bad when eaten. You can store sausages in a rice bin or in a cool, dry place in the kitchen cabinet.

Root vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, kohlrabi, etc. are also recommended to be stored at room temperature in a cool place. Vegetables can be placed on the floor in a cool, shady place for 10-12 days.

According to VTC News