Challenges
- Healthcare center always provide fruit juice, however, while 100% fruit juice has some benefits, it also contains a lot of sugar.
- And even milk brings controversy surrounding the higher fat and flavored milks.
- Healthcare center also need to avoid that meals were overcooked and cold, with little variety and poor nutritional content.
Trends
- Eliminating the deep fat fryer.
- Deli station with lower-sodium meats
- Salad bar including low-fat dairy products
- Offer recipes that employees and patients’ families can take with them to continue the healthful eating at home
- Create healthy vending criteria
- Eliminate sugar-sweetened beverages from their facility offerings
- Increase access to public drinking water
- Remove trans-fats from menus
- shift retail price structures to encourage healthy food selection
- Increase the purchase of local and sustainable foods
Source:
https://noharm-uscanada.org/issues/us-canada/hospital-food-environments
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