✨Dining

As I wrote a few years ago, the Erickson Senior Living communities use NetNutrition. https://www.cbord.com/senior-living/

Ann MacKay

Charlestown

Maryland

 We do have detailed nutritional values for our meals at RiverMead in New Hampshire. Our culinary vendor is Unidine and we have a link in our Community APP to the nutritional values for our dinners other than the catch of the day. Information for many lunches is available as well. It has been helpful to residents on various special diets and those trying to watch their weight. . . 

Providing nutritional analysis would be an enormous, tedious job for staff and is more complex than it sounds. Many residents are not interested in this information, but those with medical issues might need to know.

What might work is learning from dining services the names of their providers. That way residents who need to know can look the information up for themselves. Where I live the bulk, but not all, of our foods come from American Foods, LLC. That way one can look up offerings on the American Foods website or by internet search. Fresh items and specialty items can be looked up by interested residents. This is not perfect but it works adequately. Our menus are on a three month cycle.

There is a free downloadable app called NUTRITIONIX which was developed and managed by dietitians. The information is accurate and the app is easy to use.

Another issue that makes this task so difficult is portion control. How big is that piece of cake? Most people with a need to know would benefit from an accurate kitchen scale.

Maura Conry

NaCCRA Board Member

Forum Moderator

The last post is three and a half years ago. Are any communities now providing this info? We are still asking for it but it is not yet provided. i would like to know if other communities have the info and how/what is provided.

Yes, this seems the company. NetNutrition is one of their trademarks. They offer many services.

https://www.cbord.com/cbord-trademarks

Linda Kilcrease

Resident of a CCRC

It looks like it is from CBORD:

https://www.cbord.com/industries/senior-living/solutions/resident-nutrition

If you do a Google search on Netnutrition - it is used everywhere - many colleges, universities, etc. So far, I cannot find the website of the company that owns and sells this service.

Linda Kilcrease

Resident of a CCRC

The Erickson Senior Living Communities use NetNutrition for the nutritional information. It can be used through our resident portal. The screen shots that Linda Lilcrease posted look like what we see so I am assuming it is the same program.

Ann MacKay

Charlestown

Catonsville, MD

I live at Medford Leas i. Medford , New Jersey. I think our food is high quality but residents must choose wisely. I have lived here 12 years and am picky about what my husband snd I eat. For example, there is often no green vegetable served automatically but they are available. You can also choose low salt items like fresh blueberries instead of sugary desserts.

Kay Roberts

I'm asking our culinary the source of our excellent nutritional info. By item or for a meal with totals sheet. An area for each separate dining facility for those people to select items to analyze. We also have a sheet with fish origin.

Below are some images.

Linda Kilcrease

Resident of a CCRC

Our resident Food & Dining Committee would like to have a nutritional analysis of the recipes used in our dining services. Many residents need the salt, sugar, fat, vitamins, minerals, lactose, gluten, etc content of individual meal courses. Questions:

1. Does your facility have any nutritional analysis of the meals served? If so, what depth: descriptive menus down to a spreadsheet of the recipe ingredients versus nutrient content?

2. If you have recipe nutrient analysis, how is it created? Does your dining services create and publish the information? Are residents involved in any of the creation and publishing? Do the residents/dining services use any software to generate the information? If so, what software?

Bert Laurence

A Palo Alto CA CCRC