A short method to ensure nutritional adequacy of food served in nursing homes. II. Development of a model food plan.
A model food plan was developed to serve as a short method to ensure nutritional adequacy of food served to nursing home residents. Criteria were that the food plan provide 100 per cent of 1974 Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) for fourteen nutrients without exceeding 110 per cent of allowances for calories. To meet the criteria, an increase in pounds of meat, fish, and poultry; dried beans, peas, and nuts; green leafy vegatables; bananas; and dry cereals over actual food issues was required. The model plan is presented in the form of pounds of food, per sixteen food groups, required for 100 persons, per day.
D000368:Aged; D004032:Diet; D005522:Food Services / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena