Understanding Cooking and Nutrition (U-CAN) 1
Game Questions for Food Safety Lesson
Directions: Cut apart questions attach to a colorful backing and mount on a Spin Quest- type wheel.
Students spin the wheel and answer the question that stops at the arrow. You may want to allow them
to “phone a friend.” Take nutrition reinforcements for prizes for correct answers – everyone should get
one, though. Once a question is answered, it needs to come off of the wheel. If you don’t have a wheel,
you can number the questions and have students draw numbers, or put the questions in envelopes and
have the students draw their questions. These are True or False questions. These questions were
developed from the “Cold Pizza for Breakfast” and “What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You” handouts from
University of Nebraska Extension.
If food tastes OK, it’s safe to eat.
If you get sick from eating food, it was from the last food you ate.
If you’ve never been sick from the food you prepare, you don’t need to worry
about feeding it to others.
Many incidents of foodborne illness go undetected, and are often blamed on the
“flu.”
Some bacteria produce toxins that are not destroyed by high cooking
temperatures.
The only way to know for sure that a food is cooked to a safe internal
temperature is to use a food thermometer.
Raw meat and poultry should be washed before cooking.
Over 2 million bacteria can grow from one bacterium left at room temperature in
7 hours.
Proper hand washing is the most effective way to stop the spread if illness.
You should use one cutting board for raw meat, poultry and seafood, and a
separate one for other foods.
If you let a food sit out at room temperature for more than two hours, you can
make it safe by heating it really hot.
The worst that can happen to you with a foodborne illness is an upset stomach.
We should be scared of eating almost everything, because germs are everywhere!
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