Nutrition · Module 14 · Clinical nutrition and food safety

Clinical Nutrition and Food Safety Lab

Grow bacteria on a virtual plate and stop them with a thermometer, set up a tube feeding or texture-modified diet safely, practise the clinical math, sort the big ideas and work through real-life cases. Nothing here is graded.

Part 1: Bacteria Growth Simulator

Simulator readouts
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A teaching model, not a food safety test. Bacteria are drawn as one colony that doubles; the count starts at 100. Doubling time is about 20 minutes between 70 and 110 °F and slower toward 40 and 140 °F; real microbes vary and often have a slow start (lag phase), which this model leaves out to show the worst case. Cooking to the safe temperature is shown as killing nearly all bacteria, but some spores survive and some toxins are not destroyed by heat.