Author(s): Kalyani Konch, Juliana Sarmah and Sayanika Borah

Abstract:
Good food hygiene is essential to ensure that the food we eat is safe. Harmful germs that cause food poisoning can spread very easily. Food hygiene also prevents stomach infections and body illnesses. The health status of the family mainly depends on the women or homemakers of the house. Therefore, it is very essential to give adequate knowledge to homemakers about personal hygiene, environmental hygiene and different aspects of food hygiene such as cleaning, storing, preparing, cooking and serving of food etc., their quality will be increased to provide good hygienic diet and improve the health status of the family. Thirty items having significant biserial correlation at 0.01 level and 0.05 level of probability were selected for the final knowledge check on food hygiene.