Defining Healthy Menus – What Restaurants Need to Know
Modern Restaurant Management
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Healthy, local, fresh … these are the ubiquitous terms on menus, but what do they mean? When it comes to the term “healthy,” which is a nutrient content claim, the FDA defined it more than 25 years ago in 1993 with a focus on total fats, saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium. Manufacturers of foods generally considered to be healthy but not low in fat (e.g., nuts, avocados, eggs, salmon) found it hard to meet that definition.
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