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1. Garden to kitchen
Keep healthy when preparing and
storing fresh organically grown produce
Golden rules for health and hygiene
• Ensure enough space to carry out tasks hygienically
• Clean areas between tasks
Provide adequate
• water for washing supply of hot and/or cold drinkable
produce
Lightly scrub fruit
and vegetables to
remove dirt
Ensure good hand
washing routines
Use a
• gardenseparate sink or bowl for washing
produce
Use separate containers for carrying and
• storing produce
Keep raw produce separate from
• cooked food
Wash soil from
between the leaves
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• asatpossible vegetables as soon after picking
Store fruit and
• ventilated placevegetables in a cool, wellor a refrigerator
After preparing or
• vegetables they cancooking fruit and later
be frozen, to eat
Don’t over-cook as valuable
nutrients will be lost
Don’t peel too thickly as
many nutrients are stored
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