Consumption will regulate the meals of hospitals and nursing homes as it did with school canteens

Many elderly people living in residences and their families complain about the poor quality of food received by inmates, with many fried and cooked dishes. The same is true in some hospitals. In fact, “hospital food” is usually synonymous with tasteless and insipid. Therefore, following the recent approval in April of the Royal Decree of Healthy and Sustainable School Eaters, the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and Agenda 2030 has an…

Both ministries are working on a new royal decree to ensure that the supply is healthy and nutritious, similar to what the government approved a month ago to limit unhealthy food in school canteens.The government limits unhealthy food from school menus and takes out sugary drinks and pastries from schools.One month after setting standards for school menus to limit unhealthy food, the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030 wants t…

The Minister of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, Pablo Bustinduy, has announced that the government will promote a royal decree to ensure that meals offered in hospitals and nursing homes are healthy and nutritious. This new regulation will follow the line of the decree approved recently in the Council of Ministers that regulates school menus. This decree establishes minimum frequencies for the consumption of vegetables, fruits and fi…

Bustinduy wants to regulate by decree, together with the Ministry of Health, so that food is healthier in these centers, just as it was done in schools and institutes "There are 10 year olds who don't know what a zucchini is"

This new legislation, added the above-mentioned sources, responds to the numerous complaints and proposals for improvement expressed by both citizens and social entities, as well as by professional groups themselves, on the need to improve food in hospitals and residences. The new decree will develop the provisions contained in Law 17/2011 of 5 July 2011 on food security and nutrition by setting minimum criteria of nutritional quality and sustai…

Following the wake of the royal decree of school canteens, which was approved just a month ago by the Council of Ministers and sets minimum frequencies of fresh vegetables, fruits and fish on the menus of educational establishments, limiting frying, pre-cooked and sugary drinks, the central government will soon regulate the food offered to patients admitted to hospitals and nursing homes.