Canning Food

I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.

People have always had to find ways to keep food safe to eat. Methods to dry, smoke and salt
food were invented thousands of years ago. The process of canning is much more recent. This
storage method keeps food safe to eat for long periods of time. Today, canning is one of the most
popular methods of storing food.

Canning uses heat to kill bacteria and other micro-organisms that cause poisons to form in food.
Canning also takes away the air that these organisms need to live. One popular method of
canning uses a water bath.

Clean fruits or vegetables are placed in glass bottles. The food can be put into the bottles either
hot or cold. The cold method is used for soft fruits and vegetables that could lose their shape or
taste. Firmer fruits and most vegetables are usually cooked. They take up less space in the
bottles.

1. Gwen Steffani is the reporter of VOA T/F

2. Canning is the unpopular methods of storing food T/F
3. Canning uses heat to kill bacteria and other micro-organism T/F
4. Canning also takes away the air that these organism need to live T/F
5. Water bath is one of the most popular method of canning T/F
6. The food cannot be put into the bottles either hot or cold T/F
7. The cold method is used for soft fruits T/F
8. Firmer fruits and most vegetables are usually cooked T/F

Find and match the meaning/synonym of these words!

1. Safe a. short time ago;began

2. Methods b.free from harm
3. organism c. a smaller amount
4. Storage d. way of doing something
5. Recent e.living being;system with parts dependent on each
other
6. Bacteria f.hot
7. Heat g. space used for storing goods
8. Firmer h.fairly hard
9. Less i.Small organism that can cause disease
10.invented j.make or design something that did not exist
before