Food modification
- Created by: Nastassia
- Created on: 14-05-20 10:26
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- Therapeutic Diets
- Reasons for a therapeutic diet
- Increase, decrease or eliminate a nutrient
- Maintain, restore or correct nutrition
- Maintain normal organ functions
- For weight gain
- To balance a diet
- Cut out foods for medication
- Digestion
- Due to allergies
- Texture modification
- Types of therapeutic diets: Nutrition modification, texture modification, tube feeding, allergy modification
- Nutrition modification
- 1 or more nutrient added or removed
- Low sugar diet
- Low sodium (salt)
- High Fiber
- Texture Modification
- Easier to eat and swallow
- Change the consistency of food
- For people suffering from dysphagia
- Texture A: Soft
- Texture B: Minced and moist
- Texture C: Smooth and pureed
- Tube feeding
- Food goes through a tube
- The fluid has the same nutrients as food
- Tube - nose or stomach
- Food allergy modification
- Not the same as intolerance
- Remove foods that causes an allergy
- Nutrition modification
- Reasons for a therapeutic diet
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