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Originally Posted by Thunderball
Another thing people forget in regard to food prepared in hospitals/facilities is that it is supposed to be (according to RNs I know) very low sodium for obvious reasons. Which is probably why blandness is a common complaint.
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I've been on a sodium reduced diet for 3 years now. There are lots of "no salt" spices to enhance food. I'm not married to a chef, but he got pretty darn creative in the kitchen when we had to eliminate sodium....
And fresh veggies don't need anything if they are indeed "fresh".
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Originally Posted by para transit fellow
I will throw in another complication to this discussion ( if it hasn't been discussed already)
Our sense of taste changes as we age.
We lose the ability to appreciate subtle flavours and food becomes more "bland" to the palate as we age (ever notice how many seniors love sour candies?)
So it may be possible that something that tastes flaveorful to a 30 year in the kitchen is flavourless to the 97 year old in the dinning room.
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Well John Gilchrist (Calgary food writer) also points out it doesn't even have an aroma. Or do seniors lose their sense of smell too?
Here is more from John on this topic at Alberta Primetime.
http://www.albertaprimetime.com/Stories.aspx?pd=3829