Table of contents Close
Introduction
1. Menu - you are what you eat 2. What are microbes? 4. Food spoilers 6. Quiz

Beans
Chicken
Ham
Mushrooms
Pickles
Prawns
Quorn™
Rice
Vegetables

Beer
Fizzy drink
Milk
Tap water
Mineral water
Wine

Bread
Cheese
Cream bun
Fruit
Marmite
Chocolate
Yoghurt
Different types of microbe
Bacteria
Fungi
Algae
Protazoa
Viruses
What is food spoilage?
Spoilage microbes
How do different foods go off?
How do different foods go off - cont'd?
Preserving foods
  - heating and cooling

  - room temperature
3. Food producers 5. Food poisoners
What do food producers do?
Fermented foods
Lactic acid fermentations
Yeast fermentations
Other fermented foods
Fungal foods
Microbial food ingredients
Food poisoning
Bacteria in foods
Fungi that cause food poisoning
Protozoa that cause food poisoning
Viruses that cause food poisoning
Algae that cause food poisoning
Prions that cause food poisoning
Food and the law