COHESIVE THIN LIQUIDS TO PROMOTE SAFE SWALLOWING IN DYSPHAGIC PATIENTS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide nutritional products for promoting safer swallowing of food boluses for patients having swallowing conditions.SOLUTION: The nutritional products include nutritional compositions and high molecular weight, water-soluble polymers such that the nutritional products have extensional viscosities that provide improved cohesiveness to the nutritional products. Specifically, a nutritional product comprises an aqueous solution of a food grade biopolymer capable of providing the nutritional product with a shear viscosity of less than about 100 mPas, preferably of less than about 50 mPas, when measured at a shear rate of 50 s, and a relaxation time, determined by a Capillary Breakup Extensional Rheometry (CaBER) experiment, of more than 10 ms at a temperature of 20°C.SELECTED DRAWING: None