AY Honors/Home Nursing/Answer Key

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A soft diet is recommended in many situations, including some types of dysphagia (difficulty swallowing), surgery involving the mouth or gastrointestinal tract, and pain from newly adjusted braces.

A soft diet can include many foods if they are mashed or pureed, placed in soups, stews, chili, curries, or made into sauces.

In some situations, there are additional restrictions. For example, patients who need to avoid excessive reflux, such as those recovering from esophageal surgery for achalasia, are also instructed to stay away from foods that can aggravate reflux, which include ketchup and other tomato products, citrus fruits, chocolate, mint, spicy foods, alcohol, and caffeine.

Many of the foods listed here can be adapted for a "full liquid" diet (not a "clear liquid" diet) by processing in a blender with an appropriate thinning liquid, such as a meat broth, fruit or vegetable juice, or milk.


Grains/starches

  • Cooked cereals: oatmeal, porridge, Weetabix/Cream of Wheat.
  • Breakfast Cereal, soggy in milk.
  • Macaroni & Cheese (pureed in blender if needed.)
  • Mashed potatoes and gravy
  • Mashed sweet potatoes
  • Pasta cooked soft
  • Rice cooked soft
  • Skinless baked potatoes with sour cream or cream cheese

Protein

Fruits and vegetables

  • Applesauce
  • Avocados
  • Bananas
  • Grapefruit sections
  • Orange sections
  • vegetables cooked soft or pureed in the blender
  • Spinach, creamed.
  • soup, many kinds.
  • juices
  • melons: Watermelon, Cantelope, Honeydew.
  • Peeled Pears or Peaches, ripe or canned
  • creamed Corn.

Desserts

  • Custard
  • Fruit smoothies
  • Ice cream, Sherbet, Frozen Yogurt, Popsicles
  • Milkshakes
  • Pudding
  • Pie: Pumpkin, Key Lime.
  • Yogurt
  • Whipped Topping
  • Chocolate, small pieces which melt in mouth (peanut butter cups, kisses).

See also