Amy, thirty years old, is a house wife. She is an experienced woman in selecting food in supermarkets. Her most proud record is that her husband and kids has never drunk mild that stays longer than 3 days after production. When I was talking with her, I was impressed by her joyful character. She enjoys very much in taking care of the health of all the family members. Asked if she could share her successful experience in selecting the freshest food, Amy said that she just couldn’t wait to share it with our readers.

Super woman Amy tells you: 1, don’t be cheated by the lights in the supermarkets.

Beef and other kinds of meat seem extremely fresh; Vegetables looks extraordinarily green. However, as long as you bring them home and look at them for the second time, they no longer are what they used to be. Meat is dingy and vegetables fresh no more. What’s wrong with them? Amy tells us that secret lies in the lights in the supermarkets. Pink lights are specially chosen to put in the districts where varied kinds of meat are sold and green lights are used to irradiate the vegetables. Lights of warm colors are used for the cooked food and lights of cold colors for the seafood. Beautified by lights of all kinds, foods look fresher than they really are. When you are picking food, do not be cheated by their appearances. Instead, you need to carefully check the date of manufacture.

Super woman Amy tells you: 2, there are secrets in package.

Poor ventilation of the supermarkets, the great amount of people coming and going worsen the sanitation. If foods are exposed in the air, you’d better not to buy them. Instead, you should choose those packaged ones. While the package of the cooked food indicates its conditions. The more layers of packages there are, the worse the food is, for many cooked foods are wrapped by paper. If the food is just covered by one layer of paper, it is probably fresh. And as the layers increase, the unpleasant appearance and the smell of the food are hidden. In addition, the dehydration of the food causes the paper to slide off the food, so more pieces of paper are used.

Super woman Amy tells you: 3, take the food from the bottom of the refrigerator.

The freshest milk is at very the back row of the shelf, like wise, the freshest food is at the bottom of the fridge. To choose food in fridge, you need to stretch your arms to pick them up from the bottom part. According to the rule, the food with earlier date of manufacture is always on the top, and if you want to keep the food longer, avoid those on the top.

Super woman Amy tells you: 4, be careful when choosing ready-made food.

Many housewives like the ready-made foods in the supermarkets. The vegetables are already cleaned; the beef, chicken or fish are cleaned and sliced. And different foods are specially matched and all you have to do is to bring them to the kitchen and cook. It saves a lot of time. However, Amy seldom chooses these foods. Because the ready-made dishes are composed of different types of food whose date of manufacture varies. If one of them goes bad, the others are easily contaminated. And some so called ready-made foods are not ready at all – they are even not carefully washed. So be cautious on these foods despite their good-looking appearances.