What's substandard food?

Question

I've heard about welfare recipients getting substandard food. What is it exactly? How is it different from standard or ultra standard food? And really how do you distinguish substandard, standard, and other types of food like that?

Answer 1

Substandard would mean that it doesn't conform to regular health and safety standards. Like, it's spoiled or it has foreign objects mixed in it or it's somehow adulterated (like, poisoned or toxic.)

Standard would mean regular grocery store food, y'know, with "sell-by" dates and no major threat of dying from eating it.

Ultra-standard...not really an option. I guess you could consider "luxury" items ultra-standard, or maybe "premium" foods, but not really.

Luxury means expensive or rare or hard to obtain in the food world.

Premium generally means high-fat. It depends on the label, but premium has more to do with the composition of food or how it's made, not its healthful qualities. "Premium" ice cream is no more safe to eat than regular ice cream in terms of bacteria or toxins, and it's worse for you because it's higher- fat (and sometimes higher-sugar.)

Answer 2

Sub-standard food could be food that was stored incorrectly, close to or passed use-by/best before, that which wouldn't be sold through normal retail channels, or food product not intended for human consumption.
This could be things like wheat products intended for animal feed (Storage, purity, cleanliness conditions are different - more lax- for animal feed products) being used to make bread products. Same with Rice, and other grains. Unlikely in developed countries, more often in used emergency relief.
Those goods the super markets don't sell because of damaged packaging, or passed the use-by/best before date, being given to charities to pass onto the poor. Some Bakeries do give charities the bread that was left over from the days baking that just didn't sell, and there is nothing wrong with that, its just one day old. Then there are the veggie sellers who will give charities that produce which is not too fresh, which is sometimes cooked up for meals for the homeless, etc. Very common in developed countries.
Some times companies that produce a product that doesn't match their standard, but isn't in any way nutritionally different, goes to charities. The product could have been miss packaged, or not quite the right shape, colour, texture.
And there is the horror stories of the poor turning to canned pet food as a source of protein. The problem is that the regulations for the preparation are not as stringent, and non-food products are sometimes mixed in to give the product bulk.

Here in Australia, they brought in the "Good Samaritan Law" which basically said that those involved in Charity feeding of the poor (and the people who supply them) cannot be sued if they provide the food in good faith - that is they believe the food fit for human consumption.

Answer 3

i guess the variety of foods they receive is 'substandard' - as in, it is not enough for them to be really healthy. Like, maybe they get lots of potatoes and lettuce, but no other types of veggies (or not many other types of veggies), and maybe bananas are the only fruit they get. I think that would be 'substandard' in a sense - because we all need to eat a wide variety of fruits, veggies, protein etc every day to get everything we need nutritionally .

Answer 4

substandard means it is really not healthy for consumptions.

the only diffrence between standard and higher is usually the price.....

Answer 5

Honestly, I'm unsure, but I'd assume it'd be staples like milk, cheese, bread, juice...items such as that.

Answer 6

Is the fare that is customarily served aboard submarines . . .

Answer 7

food that is below standards made i think by the f.d.a.