LOGAN, Utah — For inmates at the Cache County Jail in July, the last straw was the Nutraloaf.

Nutraloaf is a generic term for a casserole-like dish with beans, oatmeal, ground chicken or turkey and a few other ingredients designed to provide nourishment with little flavor. It’s been banned in several states.

Inmates say they were fed Nutraloaf as a punishment for sharing other food.

“Me and like four or five other guys, we’re given Nutraloaf that day,” said Zayden Collins, who was an inmate at the jail at that time. “That following dinner, we went on strike.”

“I wouldn't feed a goat Nutraloaf,” Collins said. “It’s terrible. It really is.”

Collins, who is serving a sentence for attempted manslaughter, isn’t the only inmate to dislike Nutraloaf.

Jackie Cuellar, an attorney who researc

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