1.0 Introduction
Recently, Salads have become popular among consumers in Hong kong. Many different styles of salads are commercially available in the market. In commercial settings, salads are either freshly prepared at restaurants or produced as pre-packaged food factories for supplies to retail outlets. Some restaurants have soft-serve, salad bers and food ingredients displayed there may be of additional risk of being contaminated by the patronizing customers.
Salad cream is a creamy yellow condiment based on an emulsion of about 25-50 percent of oil in water, emulsified by egg yolk and acidified by spirit vinegar. It may include other ingredients such as sugar, mustard, salt, thicker, spices, flavouring and colouring.
It was introduced in the united kingdom in the 1920s, where it is used as a salad dressing and a sand wich spreed.
Due to the higher cost of ingredients during periods of rationing in the united kingdom a flavour similar to mayonnaise was achieved in the creation of salad cream.
In the Uk it has produced by companies including H.J Heinz company and crosse and Black well. Heinz salad cream was the first brand developed exclusively for the U.K market.
When first created in the Harlesden (London) Kitchens of Heinz in 1925 The preparation was done by hand.
The kraft cheese company entered the salad dressing industry in 1925: its first flavor was French oil and vinegar —based dressing flavor with tomato and paprika.
Production of Salads Cream
- The production of salads includes steps in purch as in gand processing of raw materials, mixing of ingredient, packaging, transportation and sale. The general production of salads is illustrated in the flow chartat.
- Major ingredients are minimally processed really to — eat vegetable that have been washed, the raw materials, like poultry, meat, seafood, egg and pasta have tobe cooked first. Other such as canned products, herbs, nuts and dressings are usually readily available for immediate use.
- Salad may be served without dressing depending on consumer's preference. Some types of salads consist of ingredient mixed with dressing other types of salads, or in case of pre-packaged salads, may contain ingredient only and a separate package of dressing is available for consumers to mix with the ingredients by themselves. Salad dressing usually impact characteristics flavours and may contribute same preservative effect to the product to a certain extent.
- Large fast food chain stores usually pre-prepare raw materials which only required a mixing procedure before serve. Other food premises may chesend prepared the salad ingredients by themselves.
- The finished: products may be served on the premises. Otherwise, the fresh salads may be package and sold in restaurants with take away service or package food factory and delivered to retail outlets or supermarket for sale.
- Some restaurants have self-serve salad bars where customers can pick ingredient of their choice to make up their own dishes. Food ingredients display edat self-serve salad bars may be of additions risk of being contaminated by the patronizing customers. The aim of this work is to find out the microbial assessment on salad cream sold at Ekeonunwa market.
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