Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Food in Hospital Patients Not Create a spirit of Eating

Patients who were treated at the hospital often complained about the food in the hospital were less tasteful. In Japan even 50 percent of hospital food wasted in the UK and raise about USD 800 billion wasted because hospital food is not finished.

Why is hospital food does not make a patient's spirit?

As quoted by the Guardian, Thursday (5/20/2010), no public funds for hospital care of about 50 million pounds (about USD 750 billion) is wasted because of food policy at the hospital to make patients who do not spend a lot of food.

Foods that are expected to be a patient's recovery process seems to fail because the food is given a bad mood that actually causes the patient no appetite.

"The government should be responsible for improving the quality of food served in hospitals so that all patients believed that the food consumed can come to recover the disease," said researchers at the Centre for Food Policy at City University.

While the discovery made by Japanese researchers in 2008, found the hospital food did not make the patient less excited because it tastes good.

Just so you know, hospitals are reducing the use of salt or flavor in his food dish. Though the flavor of salt and this is one that makes food tasty and can increase appetite.

Researchers have found exactly the use of glutamate can increase appetite, especially for elderly patients. Free glutamate can be found in cheese sauce, oyster, crab, chicken, beef, white shrimp, tomatoes and others. While glutamate is bound to be found in the flavor.

"Based on this research, the proper utilization of glutamate for nutritional care of elderly patients would be useful to improve the quality of life because the patient had an appetite so that white blood cells increased, the sound clearer and more cheerful face," said researchers from Seinan Toyama K Jo Gakuin University