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Background: in the last years, the gastronomy is becoming very important in the field of food. Food, in all types of collectives, is a challenge for health professionals who have the responsibility of designing, planning, scheduling and controlling the elaboration of diets. There are many factors related to intake that must be taken into account when designing the performance of the dietetic or food service: hospital resources, organizational, geographical, cultural... without forgetting the nutritional and gastronomic factors, a balance that makes the act of eating happen spontaneously and satisfactorily., Objective: the objective is to review the factors involved in hospital dietetics by integrating the gastronomic factor., Methods: it has been made a review of the main published reports, scientific articles and book chapters on hospital dietetics and gastronomy., Conclusions: hospital food requires more than any other nutrition and dietetic collaboration with food and cooking since both should be directed towards the same end, the correct feeding of the patients admitted, in the most pleasant culinary way possible. In hospitals, harmony among cooks, dieticians and health professionals is an exciting challenge that has a direct impact on the patient's benefit.

Introduction: Research is usually considered a reliable indicator of the degree of development. Research in a problematic area such as food and nutrition for a given region, should have an impact on scientific production in agreement with the importance of the problem, the research capacity and the available resources for generating such a research., Objective: To identify some indicators of Iberoamerican research in nutrition and food., Method: Retrospective study of Iberoamerican scientific production in nutrition and food in the last 25 years. The data were obtained from the bibliographic database Science Citation Index Expanded, Journal Citation Reports Science Edition Database 2011, both included in the Web of Knowledge (Thomson Reuters), and the database of the World Bank., Results: 49,808 papers were registered, the 3.20% of the Health Sciences collection in SCI. The evolution was fitted to an exponential model, N&D (R² 0.962) and FS&T (R² 0.995). The average production in N&D per average population was higher in Spain with 0.659 papers/million. The highest rates of productivity and profitability were found in Guatemala with 12.963 papers/1000 researchers and 1.486 papers/million $ respectively. The average production in FS&T of the different countries per average population was higher in Cuba with 21.624 papers/million. The productivity index was higher in Uruguay with 25.999 papers/thousand researchers. The profitability index was higher in Guatemala with 0.271 papers/million $., Conclusion: There is exponential growth in the two categories studied N&D and FS&T. Productivity and profitability was higher in countries with low R&D (Research & Development) budget.