Common recipes for a liquid diet include:

Thick rice soup, lotus root powder, almond tea, pineapple congee

Egg custard sauce, egg broth, broth with milk

Milk and milk products-cheese, almond bean curd, yogurt, ice cream, cocoa milk, milk mixed with lotus root powder; soymilk, luodou soup; vegetable water, cabbage soup, original juice Tomato juice

Fresh fruit juices, boiled fruit water, fruit teas, jellies; chicken broth, chicken soup, liver soup.

Liquid diets are lower in energy and provide fewer nutrients, and the number of meals can be increased to 6-8 per day, and even then, they can only be used as an early transition stage for many diseases, and should be transitioned to a semi-liquid diet as soon as possible according to the patient's tolerance, or else malnutrition is likely to occur.

Notes on taking fluid diet

Fluid diet is suitable for people who are weak and incapable of chewing food, such as the elderly, patients with oral or cheek surgeries, and patients with gastrointestinal diseases. However, it is best for these people to ingest fluids under the guidance of a doctor and with other foods, otherwise the nutrition will not keep up. It may be counterproductive for healthy people or those with weak stomachs to try to nourish their stomachs by eating fluids.

Fluid food is swallowed without being chewed and ingested, without being stirred with saliva, the amylase enzyme in saliva cannot play a role in the initial digestion, and it will increase the burden of the stomach when it goes directly into the stomach; fluids have more water, and after entering the stomach, it will dilute the gastric juices, which is not conducive to the digestion of the food; the function of the stomach will be reduced after long-term consumption of fluids, and then eating other foods, especially hard foods, fiber foods, etc., will aggravate the burden of the stomach.