For most tourists, culinary taste of a destination is the most fun when traveling. But without realizing it, behind the delicious food, there could be a lot of hazardous materials.

     When traveling, tourists expressed many reasons. One is enjoying the culinary specialties. Sometimes, in order to get the food target, a tourist to overlook some important things related to health.

Dilongok of Smarter Travel, here are 5 things to look out for on your food when traveling:

1. Drinks are typical in remote areas

Drinking contaminated water is a major cause of pain was a tourist. Could be, the water you drink is not free of pathogens that cause disease.

Body tourists exhausted by the journey, will be easily infected with pathogens in the water. Therefore, though tempted to drink typical of a destination, it is advisable to find out first water storage, and all factors relating to hygiene.

2. Ice

Here it is another thing commonly overlooked when traveling tourists, the ice. Enjoying an iced cold water and hot weather diseruput definitely feels good. But do not jump to gulp your drinks cold.

Note ice provided by the seller. If put in place if only dirty, replace it with water without ice. Especially if the destination visited had poor sanitation. This is because pathogenic bacteria will freeze and not die in the ice.

3. The food is not closed

In addition to ice, the source of the disease came from flies. Flying insects are usually perched on garbage and dirty places. After that he flew and contaminate food by putting dirt or bacteria in there and go.

Usually, such tainted food sold by street vendors without cover food. If you do not want to ingest bacteria and other diseases of the fly, avoid buying culinary wares of the merchants who allow open freely. Especially avoid if you want food just dihinggap flies, although food sold is a regional culinary specialties. Hold and other traders looking cleaner.

4. The food was not cooked perfectly

The fourth thing you should look at your food while traveling is the food hot. For sample culinary specialties, a tourist tends to ignore the process. The food is served in hot conditions does not mean perfectly ripe.

Could be, the dish in front of you still contain pathogens because alias perfectly cooked medium rare. Therefore, you should choose the food perfectly cooked by the chef, and avoid foods that just warmed.

5. Avoid raw products

In some destinations, it feels good to eat salad. Especially if the vacation location has a menu mainstay form of fresh salad.

But be careful, the crude product which was not washed can contain many pathogens. Therefore, before eating should be boiled or cooked first, except for peeled fruit or vegetable.