BSN 2C – DALIPE, DE LOS REYES NUTRITION & DIET THERAPY – LABORATORY ACTIVITY 19/12/2020

NORMAL AND THERAPEUTIC DIETS

TABLE 5-1. Soft Diet Modification

SAMPLE MENU FOR LUNCH MODIFICATION

Normal Diet
Soup - Chopseuy (1 small bowl)
Meat - Chicken (1 piece, fried)
Rice - 1 cup, plain white
Vegetables - Chopseuy (bite-sized meat such
as pork, and assorted vegetables such as
celery, broccoli, carrots, or cabbage flash-
cooked in a starch-thickened sauce.)
Fruits or Dessert - Mango, 1 slice
Soft Diet Mechanical Soft Diet
Soup – broth from Sinigang na Isda Soup – Chicken and corn soup (1 sachet)
Meat – Sinigang na Isda (Tanigue, ½ slice) Meat - Ginaling na Karne (grounded
tenderloin, 1 serve)
Rice - (1 cup, brown) Rice – (1 cup, brown)
Vegetables - Sinigang na Isda (ginger, Red bell Vegetables - Ginaling na Karne (potatoes &
pepper, kangkong leaves) carrots)
Fruits or Dessert - 1 soft cookie Fruits or Dessert – Fruit Salad (1 small bowl)

TABLE 5-2. Characteristics of Soft Diet and Mechanical Soft Diet

DIET INDICATIONS CHARACTERISTICS FOOD SELECTIONS

Soft Diet For patients who can't bite easily,
swallow or digest foods included
in the full diet; mild to moderate
infection; simple GI disturbance
and convalescence.
Mechanical Soft Diet For patients with poor dentures,
lack of teeth, presence of sores
and lesions in the mouth.
Fills in as a transition from the full
liquid to the regular full diet; is a
healthfully diet; is an alteration of
the normal diet in consistency and
texture.
Foods made easy to chew, such as
ground meat.
Those low in cellulose content,
low in fiber, free from tough
connective tissues and strong
flavors, simple and easily
digested.
Foods included are reduced to
small sizes by grinding, chopping,
mincing, etc.
 TABLE 5-3. Liquid Diet Modification

SAMPLE MENU FOR LUNCH MODIFICATION

Normal Diet General Liquid Diet Clear Liquid Diet
Soup - Chicken and corn soup (1 sachet) Soup - Bouillon cube (stock cube/broth cube) Soup - Clear, fat free broths
Meat – Chicken and corn soup (shredded Meat - Pureed strained meat Meat – NA
chicken)
Rice – Cereal Rice – Oatmeal (1 bowl, blended and thinned Rice - NA
with milk)
Vegetables - Avocado shake Vegetables – mashed potato with meat-based Vegetables - NA
gravy
Fruits or Dessert – Plain Gelatin Fruits or Dessert – Ice cream (Vanilla) Fruits or Dessert – Strained orange juice
(pulp-free)

TABLE 5-4. Characteristics of General Liquid Diet and Clear Liquid Diet

DIET INDICATIONS CHARACTERISTICS FOOD SELECTIONS

General Liquid Diet
Clear Liquid Diet
 preparing for a test or
medical procedure
 recovering from a
surgery, such as bariatric
surgery
 having difficulty
swallowing or chewing
Illness or surgery accompanied by
marked intolerance to foods;
acute inflammatory conditions of
the GI tract, in conditions when it
is necessary to minimalize fecal
material.
It is made up only of fluids and
foods that are normally liquid and
foods that turn to liquid when
they are at room temperature,
like ice cream.
Inadequate in nutritional
essentials; food included are
liquid or will become liquid at
body temperature, leave no
residue, non-distending, non-
irritating and non-stimulating to
peristaltic action, should be used
for 1 to 2 days only.
Strained cream soups, pureed
strained meat and fish, veg.
purees and juices, strained lugao
& oatmeal, plain ice cream, plain
gelatin, custard, milk & milk
drinks.
Clear, fat free broths, strained
fruit juices, tea, black coffee,
salabat, plain gelatin. Give small
amounts every 1-2 hours.