Food modification

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  • 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

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