Diet food
In Germany, the term dietetic food is regulated in the Diet Ordinance.
definition
According to the diet regulation, dietetic foods must meet the following properties (all must apply):
- for a defined group of people .
- for a special nutritional purpose .
- with a clear difference to foods for general consumption .
Dietary foods do not serve the general nutrition of the average population , but a defined group of people :
- People with digestive, absorption and metabolic disorders.
- People who are "in special physiological circumstances".
- healthy infants and young children.
Classification
Dietetic foods for special medical purposes (balanced diets) are divided into complete and supplementary balanced diets. Both can contain a standard nutrient formulation or a nutrient formulation adapted to specific complaints or illnesses. The complete balanced diet can completely cover the nutritional needs of the person for whom it is intended, while the supplementary diet is not suitable for use as the sole source of food ( Section 1, Paragraph 4a of the Diet Ordinance).
Examples
The following food groups are dietary foods:
- Infant formula and follow-on formula ,
- Other foods for infants and young children ( complementary foods ),
- Low or reduced calorific food to reduce weight ,
- Food for special medical purposes ( balanced diets ),
- Low- sodium foods, including diet salts that are low in or sodium-free,
- Gluten-free foods with no additives
- Food for intense muscular effort, especially for athletes ,
- Food for people who suffer from a glucose metabolism disorder ( diabetics )
- Tube feeding
- Sip food
Ban on diabetic foods
On September 24, 2010, the Federal Council decided on the proposal of the Committee for Agricultural Policy and Consumer Protection (AV) and the Health Committee (G) " to delete the specific requirements for food for diabetics and to adapt the dietary ordinance to the requirements of Community law . "With this, with a transition period until 2012, the production of food with the note 'suitable for diabetics' for the German market had to be stopped. Since diabetes mellitus, according to the current state of scientific knowledge, is not a pure "diabetes disease", but also affects the protein and fat metabolism , no benefit can be proven for sugar substitutes . Thus, the same dietary recommendations apply to people with diabetes as to the general population. References to diet foods that diabetics can enjoy them carefree are therefore misleading.
Food for diabetics may no longer be offered since October 9, 2012. They are considered superfluous and sometimes even harmful.
See also
literature
- Andreas Meisterernst, Ebba Loeck, Helmut Erbersdobler: Practical Guide Dietary Supplements & Complementary Balanced Diets . Behr, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89947-412-1 ( loose-leaf work ).
- Andreas Hahn, Maike Wolters, Olaf Hülsmann: Dietary supplements and complementary balanced diets. 2nd edition, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8047-2272-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 874th plenary session of the Federal Council - agenda item 57: Sixteenth ordinance amending the diet ordinance ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , bundesrat.de, September 21, 2010
- ↑ Ordinance of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection: Sixteenth ordinance amending the Diet Ordinance ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 621 kB), bundesrat.de, August 9, 2010
- ↑ Change in the diet regulation - food for diabetics should disappear ( memento of the original from October 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , rp-online.de, September 23, 2010
- ↑ Diet regulation No more diabetic chocolates & Co. ( Memento from June 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), br-online.de, September 29, 2010
- ↑ That will change in 2012 - Food for Diabetics , Westdeutsche Zeitung Online, December 28, 2011, seen on December 30, 2011
- ↑ Dietary supplements & supplementary balanced diets, practical handbook ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
