Tips For Buying Eggs Meat Poultry And Fish

Tips for buying eggs, meat, poultry and fish

• Eggs with dirty and discolored shells, or soiled with droppings.
• Eggs with cracked shells
• Eggs that float in water
• Broken eggs with blood spot/meat spot/foul odour
• Fish with flesh on which depression remains when pressed with a finger or flesh that becomes soft and falls apart or flabby flesh that separates from the bones
• Fish with grey or green gills
• Fish with dull, sunken eyes
• Fish with foul odour and very few scales left on the fish, if the fish is scaly
• Meat and poultry with tough, fibrous flesh with more fat and bone, discoloration, putrid smell, slimy appearance and touch and damaged packaging.

Tips for buying frozen foods

• Large amounts of ice crystals, discolouration, foul smell
• If packaging is soiled, leaking or damaged
• If food has thawed.