The aim of the thesis was to examine whether the food offered in the elderly nursing home complies with the reference values for macro and micronutrients intake prescribed for the elderly age group. Chemical analysis of five selected elements (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and iron) was used in all-day meals, these contents were compared with the reference values for the intake of these elements with food. We discussed 14 all-day meals consisting of breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, and dinner. We found that there was too much sodium and salt in the meals in the nursing home in question, as the weekly sodium and salt intake in both weeks exceeded the estimated values for the minimum intake of this element. The highest measured value of Na (2994 mg/day) was almost twice the reference value of the National Institute of Public Health - NIJZ (2020) for this element (1500 mg/day). The salt content in all-day meals exceeded the limit of 5 g / day (NIJZ, 2016) in 12 of 14 days, with a maximum value of 7.6 g. For the macroelement K, we found that its content in the meals did not reach the recommended levels. The highest measured potassium content in the two-week meals was 2605 mg, which is still well below the NIJZ (2020) recommended value of 4000 mg/day. The average quantity of Ca in all-day meals was lower than the recommended value of 1000 mg/day. The maximum Ca content in the whole day meal was 903 mg, the lowest even only 339 mg/day, while the recommended value was 1000 mg/day. For Mg, we found that the measured values in meals do not meet the recommendations of the NIJZ (2020) for men (350 mg/day), and except for one day also do not meet the recommendations for women (300 mg/day). According to our analysis, the iron trace element contents mainly corresponded to the recommended NIJZ (2020) value of 10 mg/day, as they ranged between 10 and 19 mg/day
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