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Patient meals worth looking forward to.

Everyone deserves good food to look forward to. Our chefs and dietitians create delicious, nutritious meals for patients, staff and visitors, with a wide range of choices for different tastes, appetites and dietary needs.

Ranges

Meals for every appetite.

We’ve been supporting the healthcare sector with delicious, nutritious meals for over 25 years. Our ranges continue to evolve around the needs of hospitals and the people they care for, with more choice for different tastes, appetites and dietary needs.

Plenty of choice to enjoy every single day.

Our main range brings together delicious, nutritious meals for a wide variety of tastes and appetites.

Give patients more choice with CarteChoix.

Our CarteChoix range offers an even wider choice of individually portioned meals, helping hospitals cater for different tastes and appetites while reducing food waste.

Catering for specialist dietary needs.

From texture modified and Free From meals to options for medical, dietary and cultural requirements, our specialist ranges make it easier to cater for individual needs with confidence.

Our ranges

Explore our healthcare meal ranges.

From everyday patient meals to specialist nutrition and flexible staff dining, our ranges make it easier to cater for different tastes, appetites and dietary needs.

A plated main-range apetito meal

Multiportion

Flexible multi portion dishes make it easy to serve great tasting meals efficiently, with plenty of choice across the menu.

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200+ meals
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Patient Meals
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CarteChoix

Individually portioned meals offering patients more choice, with consistent quality and simple preparation.

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A la carte
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Patient Meals
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Texture Modified

Specialist meals for people with swallowing difficulties, created to make mealtimes safer, more enjoyable and dignified.

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IDDSI compliant
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Patient Meals
A free-from meal prepared for sensitive diets

Free From

Carefully developed meals for specific dietary requirements, giving patients more choice and reassurance at mealtimes.

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Allergen aware
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Patient Meals
A meal meeting cultural and religious dietary requirements

Cultural

A varied range of dishes inspired by different cuisines, helping hospitals cater for diverse tastes and cultural preferences.

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Cultural & religious
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Patient Meals
A smaller, energy-dense Mini Meals Extra portion

Mini Meals Extra

Smaller portions with added nutrition, designed for people with reduced appetites who need more from every mouthful.

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Energy dense
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Patient Meals
Easy-to-hold finger food items

Finger Foods

Easy to hold meals and snacks that support greater independence and dignity at mealtimes.

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For dementia or dexterity challenges
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Patient Meals
Easy-to-hold finger food items

Paediatrics

Multi-portion meals designed specifically to meet the needs of children.

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For children
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Patient Meals

Flexible catering

Great food. Served your way.

Every hospital has different priorities. Whether it’s serving great food efficiently at scale or giving patients more individual choice, our flexible approach can be tailored around each site and the way it works.

Great meals at scale.

Our multi portion range makes it easier to serve delicious, nutritious meals consistently across busy hospital environments.

More individual choice.

Our Carte Choix range gives patients greater choice at mealtimes, with individually portioned meals for different tastes, appetites and dietary needs.

An apetito staff member in a green apron serves hot food from terracotta dishes at a heated counter.

Food safety

Food safety you can trust.

Whether you are serving patients, staff or visitors, there should be no compromise to food safety.

That’s why every aspect of our meals is carefully checked and tested before it reaches you. We’re audited every year against the BRCGS Global Standard for Food Safety, achieving its top Grade A rating. And we expect the same high standards from our suppliers, with strict food safety and animal welfare checks in place.

Our frozen meals service gives us another advantage. We test samples from every batch before it leaves apetito, helping us maintain rigorous standards for pathogens and allergens. Our laboratories are independently audited and approved through the Campden Laboratory Approval Scheme (CLAS), giving you added confidence in every meal you serve.

An apetito lab technician in a white coat and gloves handling a petri dish beside stacked dishes.

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CLAS audited and approved laboratories

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25+

years’ healthcare experience.

700+

700+ healthcare sites supplied every day.

apetito lab technician in a white coat and mask preparing a sample beside a microscope.
Proven results

The proof isn't just in the pudding.

We're proud of our ability to transform hospital catering services.

Reduced food waste in a hospital kitchen
Case study

Lowering food waste by 29%.

Reducing food waste in healthcare. Food waste is a common challenge across hospital catering services. Discover how one hospital site achieved a 29% reduction in food waste through changes to its foodservice operation.

Patient enjoying a freshly served meal
Case study

Patient satisfaction above 90%.

Discover how we increased patient satisfaction to above 90% at Hillingdon Hospital.

Downloads

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High quality reference guides designed for healthcare professionals.

Find out more about our ranges

Find out more about all our patient meal options

Partner With Us brochure

Learn about how we could transform your catering.

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