Why Hospital Food Fails Your Recovery: The Shocking Truth Behind Those Bland Meals
On adult menus, nearly all meals contained excess salt, with 100 percent of daily menus exceeding the American Heart Association’s recommendation for staying under 1,500 mg of sodium a day. This means meals offered to patients may actually “contribute to the exacerbation or slow resolution of the very conditions that may have led to the hospitalization,” as I discuss in my video Just How Bad Is Hospital Food?.
But if hospitals adhered to the recommended limits of salt, the food wouldn’t taste as good, responded an executive from the Salt Institute, to which the researchers replied: Taste as good? “Hospital food is often criticized as having poor palatability, despite the fact that it likely already contains high levels of sodium.” It doesn’t taste good, no matter how much salt it has.
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