Meal plans for meeting the reference values using food items available in shelters.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We have suggested "Revised Nutritional Reference Values for Feeding at Evacuation Shelters" (Revised RV) as a daily nutritional recommendation for meals served at evacuation shelters where poor diets had been reported. Since there are no meal examples to satisfy the Revised RV, our objectives were, for the future meal provision, to develop nutritionally adequate meal plans using the foods served at shelters in the past and to examine if the Revised RV could be met by changing combination of foods available.

Methods

In this case study using secondary data, we analyzed food weights of 86 meals served and recorded at 12 shelters after the heavy rains in July 2020. We obtained these data from Kumamoto Prefecture that was damaged and asked us dietary assessment for nut

SUBMITTER: Takeda T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10290345 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature