Opinion ID: 2831831
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Nutritionally Inadequate Food

Text: The Eighth Amendment requires “nutritionally adequate food that is prepared and served under conditions which do not present an immediate danger to the health and well being of the inmates who consume it.” Robles v. Coughlin, 725 F.2d 12, 15 (2d Cir. 1983) (per curiam) (internal quotation marks omitted). The district court acknowledged that Willey’s complaint alleges that “the bread was usually stale and the cabbage usually rotten.” J.A. 676. Accordingly, notwithstanding that “[c]ourts in this Circuit routinely have dismissed” inadequate‐nutrition claims, id. at 677, Willey’s claim is not that all 41 restricted diets are unconstitutional, but that the particular food he received was. Especially in light of the liberality courts must show to pro se pleadings, we find that Willey adequately pleaded this claim by alleging that his restricted diet was unusually unhealthy.