context: Since the general standards to be employed in discussing Eighth Amendment issues are well understood, I see no reason to repeat them at length here. Turning to the specific issue at hand, it appears to this Court that the Eighth Amendment requires no more than that prison officials provide inmates with a diet which is nutritionally adequate for the maintenance of normal health.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 774 F.2d 1567, 1575
citation_a.parenthetical: "The Constitution requires that prisoners be provided 'reasonably adequate food'____ The fact that the food occasionally contains foreign objects or sometimes is served cold, while unpleasant does not amount to a constitutional deprivation."
citation_a.sentence: See also Hamm v. DeKalb County, 774 F.2d 1567, 1575 (11th Cir.1985) (“The Constitution requires that prisoners be provided ‘reasonably adequate food’____ The fact that the food occasionally contains foreign objects or sometimes is served cold, while unpleasant does not amount to a constitutional deprivation.”); Ramos v. Lamm, 639 F.2d 559, 571 (10th Cir.1980), cert. denied, 450 U.S. 1041, 101 S.Ct. 1759, 68 L.Ed.2d 239 (1981); Robles v. Coughlin, 725 F.2d 12, 15 (2d Cir.1983); Jones v. Diamond, 636 F.2d 1364, 1378 (5th Cir. 1981); Smith v. Sullivan, 553 F.2d 373, 380 (5th Cir.1977) (“A well-balanced meal, containing sufficient nutritional value to preserve health, is all that is required.”). Where food is prepared and served in a sanitary manner and is nutritionally adequate to maintain normal health, the fact that it is unappetizing will not, standing alone, state a constitutional claim.
citation_b.signal: no signal
citation_b.identifier: 567 F.2d 653, 656, 660
citation_b.parenthetical: "deliberate and unnecessary withholding of food essential to normal health can violate the Eighth Amendment"
citation_b.sentence: Cunningham v. Jones, 567 F.2d 653, 656, 660 (6th Cir.1977) (“deliberate and unnecessary withholding of food essential to normal health can violate the Eighth Amendment”).