The hospital, in a pioneering initiative in Spain, offers these products to increase content of vitamins and minerals and reduce saturated fat.
The hospital complex Virgen de las Nieves in Granada, serves more than 1,100 daily breakfast and many other snack foods made exclusively from organic production.
Although the letter from the hospital and there were some organic food, since the beginning of this year, the catering service permanently changed the content of breakfasts and snacks to increase the content of vitamins and minerals and reduce saturated fat, based ingredients and products one hundred percent organic.
is the first hospital in Spain that opted to offer organic meals to their patients, thanks to a program developed in social centers the departments of Agriculture and Fisheries, Health and Environment of the Junta de Andalucía.
Now all breakfasts containing piece of fruit, toast and organic dairy, all organic production from Andalusia, with the exception of milk.
The hospital has even added to their meals novel ecological dose of butter, coffee, cocoa, jam and sugar preparations a new company Granada prepared especially for this customer.
And is that the project has also led to the creation of local employment with the birth of two new processors, in response to the huge demand for resources the hospital.
Next to nutrition, project managers of organic food have taken care hospital also informative, as they have developed an information campaign so that beneficiaries are aware that consuming organic products, as well as the benefits they report to health and the environment.
The result has been widely successful, according to data from the latest survey by the catering service of the hospital, the vast majority of users are not only familiar with organic food, but prefer to choose conventional by incorporating them into lunch and dinner.
Precisely this is one of the objectives of the Hospital for this year: the ecological turn in all the main courses and side dishes that are served throughout the day.
substitution of meat and fish at the moment appears more complicated, due to their lower presence in the organic market, but is seen as the final phase of the project.
sustainable practices, also in the mesal introduction of organic food in the canteen of the Hospital Virgen de las Nieves is part of the policy of respecting and enhancing the environment of the center, which has been certified to the Integrated AENOR Environmental Management SAS and taking care of this aspect in the recruitment of providers, waste recycling, water conservation and many other facets of everyday life.
organic foods also help to maintain natural resources and dispense chemicals, resulting in caring for the environment.
consumption with social programs as developed in the Virgen de las Nieves, the Andalusian is intended that the regional organic production takes hold and be able to supply the domestic market, more and more interested in this type of food its value as an agent of environmental change and its organoleptic quality .
Alta Hospital Bridge resolution Génave (Jaén) also joined in the last year of the initiative of the Andalusian government and now covers a demand of over 500 kilograms of organic fruit and vegetables.
These two centers will add a hundred more between kindergartens, public schools and nursing homes, which together serve nearly 10,000 diners Andalusian products one hundred percent organic.
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